I treat the world as a found object.

Through a fascination with the technology of paper and the vigilance of the natural world, I play with the syntax of form making. My work juxtaposes the kenetic gesture of painting with the physicality of elemental collage. I layer rice paper, acrylic, wood-ash, walnut ink, cardboard, roots, bone, rust, leaf, nests, etc., until my art activates in a history of its own creation. The challenge is not to succumb to vision or mire in rumination. My subjects are both homage and omen. As ghosts of what they once were, they provoke those who see my work to look carefully at themselves and summon the courage to confront what haunts them.