I employ motifs of common, agricultural plants and animals, underground roots, spider webs, and vine-like growths of the external and internal bodily world to create hanging landscapes. Past work has focused on our agricultural industry and its effects on health and the environment. It has also explored ideas of visibility and invisibility through use of reflective materials and the shadow.
Contextual concerns and decorative motifs are intermingled in the traditional art forms
of paper cuts, collage and stencils. Suspended works’ projected shadows add to a ‘questioning of reality’ and ‘casting of doubt’ on the foreground work. The slow process of cutting visual networks is an action that fulfills a need to unravel a truth within the endless matrix of information that I negotiate in today’s world. The works structural integrity is, at times, reliant on its interconnectivity, if elements disconnect the entire system is in threat of collapse.
Symbiotic relationships, such as the shadow to the object, the balance of nature to manmade, the struggle of opposing positive and negative space in my work’s imagery, create tangential and abstract content.
