AVAILABLE WORK

1 - Celestial Phases - 32”×36” - 2020 - $500

2 - Sunset (Growing Pains) - 16”x24” - 2019 - Sold

These first pieces are influenced by early medieval and pre-Renaissance paintings and illuminations, and feature religious visual motifs like shells, hands, ovals or “mandorla”, and the octogram or eight pointed star, a symbol found across various cultural and religious visual traditions and often associated with fertility, war, rebirth, and regeneration.

3 - Sacred Portals - Touch 1 - 18”x14” - 2021 - $225
4 - Sacred Portals - Phases - 18”x14” - 2021 - $225
5 - Sacred Portals - Sisters - 18”x14” - 2021 - $225
6 - Sacred Portals - Touch 2 - 18”x14” - 2021 - $225
7 - Sacred Portals - Ovum - 18”x14” - 2021 - $225

The spring of 2017 was a superbloom event in California, coming after five very dry years. Up to that point, hills that were normally flax yellow in late summer were grey, and the earth was parched. Not only does this carry the imminent, compounding threat of a deadly fire season, but there was a further sense of mourning. What if the environmental changes we’ve been promised had already come to pass, and the vitality of this place, the wild rye and the sage bushes and the life that life sustains was all but gone. Who would be hurt when the systems that consume this vitality fall apart.

8 - Memorialize, Fertilize, Renew - 16”x16” - 2019 - Sold

9 - Remnants (Fall Through Spring) - 14”x18” - 2019 - Sold

Finally, after a comparatively rainy winter, the curse briefly broke and suddenly everything was green. The Mojave was carpeted in wildflowers. It felt like a rebirth, and, for a time, the sense of impending doom lifted. I began making work about growth and frenzy and rot and reconstitution and most of all about inevitability. Not that environmental demise was inevitable, though it might be, but that change is inescapable.

10 - Remnants (Summer in the Foothills) - 24”x30” - 2019 - Sold

11 - What's a Mistake, What's a Good Day - 26”x28” - 2017 - $350

12 - Forest Study - 14”x11” - 2018 - $125

13 - Weave, Fade, Lie Dormant, Grow Bright - 16”x20” - 2018 - $250
14 - All & No Urgency - 16”x20” - 2017 - $250
15 - Fantasy of Love - 16”x20” - 2017 - $250
16 - Fantasy at Large - 16”x20” - 2017 - $250
17 - A Little Tenderness - 13”x17” - 2017 - $250

Though not every work comes from the 2017 superbloom, the passage of time and cycles of change are a thematic throughline. I’m interested in the disintegration of memory, in the fragments we piece together and in how we memorialize them. I am interested in the feeling of dissociation from and attachment to certain experiences.

18 - I Keep You - 45”x48” - 2016 - $700

19 - There('s) More - 20”x16” - 2017 - $175

20 - Late Afternoon - 18”x14” - 2018 - $200

Some of my work features abstracted text, meant to evoke this sense of familiarity, comfort, and dissociation. The pairing of images and text is a fundamental format often associated with storytelling, childhood, and shared cultural structures and practices. The text is abstracted to be almost legible but just out of reach, placing the viewer outside of something that feels real but apart from them as the past can sometimes feel.

Works on Paper

21 - Redding, Summer - 9”x12” - 2021 - $75

22 - Santa Barbara, Fall - 11”x14” - 2015 - $75

Many of the following works are also about fragmentation, dissociation, and the bits of humanity that manage to cling to something when context falls away.