It is the space between my life in the city and in nature that my work occurs, this where the questions arise. The work is about the accretion of matter and content arrived at by using ordinary, yet disparate objects. This method of ‘making’ art stimulates, for me, the memory of place as it collides with present day environmental issues.

The ‘fungi’ drawings are a series of visual Haiku’--meditative--closely examining inherent natural processes/forms. I use the simple idea of fungi specimen stains to create works on paper. Interspersed with the stains are drawn remnants of tree bark from two continents. This work emerged out of a residency at the Hambidge Center in North Georgia and the Caversham Centre in South Africa.

First. I want to viewer to have a visceral reaction, as I did the first time I encountered a dead dolphin on the beach or gathered curious fungi on the Hambidge Center property—my reaction of sadness and then anger at our shared responsibility in the chaos we continue to make of our environment. Simultaneously I would like the work to add up to more than a pedantic pounding, for it to capture the poetry of place and time.