Artist Statement

My interdisciplinary work gives voice to nature’s intelligence through photography, sculpture, and glass, exploring aspects of the natural world that exist at the margins of perception and cultural value. I am interested in the perceptual shifts that occur as the body heals from illness, and I draw on my own experiences to imagine the earth’s healing in the context of climate change, embracing the strange and surprising. 

Rooted in decades-long research of historical alchemy and contemplative time spent in nature, my practice engages materials such as carved salt and blown glass. Salt evokes the body in the alchemical tria prima, while glass vessels reference mechanisms of transformation through distillation. My sculptural practice led me to a new relationship with photography, which focuses on gloop, erosion, and calcification in landscapes and cavescapes through close looking.

In wilderness sites and caverns, I photograph wet phenomena—algae, jelly fungus, biofoam, limestone dissolution formations—often overlooked or deemed grotesque. These macro images become portals to otherworldly realms, transformed into body-scale organic sculptures integrating collage teachniques, soft sculpture, and sometimes neon or illuminated glass. Made into body-scale organic forms, these images become portals to otherworldly realms. The work honors the potential of more-than-human intelligences, revealing transformational languages of the natural world.

Through perceptual distortion, photographs appear as stone or metal, and shapes disorient typical human-to-nature hierarchies. The work asks viewers to inhabit curious unknowing, reflecting both the human healing process and the care required to tend ecologies.