Through the media of painting, sculpture and installation, my work investigates a personal connection with the natural world. This interdisciplinary approach allows me to create works that play between seeing oneself as an intrinsic part of the natural landscape, as well as an observer of it. The focus on a utopian notion of our place within nature touches on my past, but also seeks reconciliation with the present. I am interested in the seeds, sticks and trees as objects, but also in the space they occupy, as environments or fantasy landscapes.

My very intimate and slow engagement with the forms is about both observation and discovery. As I work, I anticipate the transformation that happens by obscuring their surfaces with threads, changing or heightening my experience in ways that reference ideas of beauty, desire and the search for what is ideal. As in guilding, these false “skins” imbue the objects with an assumed desirability or value; the wrapping becomes an act of veneration. Although futile in its attempt at archiving and preservation, there is the desire to suggest optimism. My meticulous act of crocheting mimics the instinct to nurture and protect what is viable, what is becoming precious.