Artist Statement
Subjecting the landscape to a critique, as an art object or any object in material culture, allows one to tease out a narrative in reverse. The broad view is pictorial: mountains, clouds, horizon lines, ground cover. The details, the small pieces, even holes and missing parts creep out and ask to be analyzed. Enigmatic fragments gain extra significance as they point in many directions, towards political, technological, and social histories that have shaped the landscape. Magical objects, laden with poetics, converse with each other. Of course, all of this subjecting is subjective and illuminates preoccupations and prejudices of the artist.

My projects explore the cultural history of landscape through a variety of media including sculpture, video, and performance. I use materials drenched with alchemy and metaphor (textiles, terra cotta, found objects, gold leaf, and bent wood among others) to create sculptures and performative props that explore folklore, music, and vernacular architecture associated with specific places. Inspired by themes culled from local histories and cultural fringes, I am interested in these often-overlooked places where history and identity politics intersect as metaphors on the body or the landscape.