"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way—things I had no words for." — Georgia O'Keeffe

I work with the materials that surround me—pollen and vegetables, calcium deposits drawn from water, soot from diesel engines, etc. These elements become pigments that I layer into abstract compositions with collage fragments, each work building itself through accumulation and intention.

The process resembles baking from scratch: elemental, tactile, transformative. There is an alchemy in grinding soot into color, in coaxing pigment from organic matter. My compositions embrace precariousness—colors and forms overlap, shift, threaten to destabilize. This fragility is deliberate. It reflects the temporary nature of the materials themselves and creates space for emotional resonance.

Each piece carries its own feeling, born from the marriage of unconventional matter and deliberate mark-making. I invite viewers to consider our shared materiality: the calcium in our bones exists in the water I collect, the carbon we exhale feeds the plants I harvest, the soot we produce settles into the earth beneath us. We are not separate from our environment but part of its continuous cycle. Through these gathered substances, I explore how deeply we are connected—to the land, to each other, and to the ongoing processes of transformation that sustain all life.

This work is an offering, an attempt to touch that invisible thread that binds all existence, and to honor the emotional and spiritual truth of our belonging to something larger than ourselves.