I explore the intersection and tension of the natural and human constructed environments. I am interested in exploring how these environments affect us physically and psychologically. The history of our changing views and interpretations of our relationship with the natural world are a constant source of inspiration and surprise.
My work changes from drawing to completion; this process of not knowing what will emerge is important to how I create. My analytical mind helps in developing ideas and research, but my best work occurs when I can focus on intuition, getting into the moment of creation: I create in spite of self-consciousness.
I understand my work through contradictions, imagining where it lays within broad spectrums such as nature / culture, intuition / reason, landscape / object, surface / form and process / product. My creative process also include contradictions: organic and
synthetic forms, salvaged and new materials, planning and experimentation.
I strive to create hybrid landscapes, mixtures of the memorable and unknown. The San Francisco Bay Area inspires me
with its “in-between areas”, areas between city and country, urban and rural,
nature and culture. Differentiations between land, sea and sky change with
cycles of weather and tides. Physical features do
not meet expectations of geographic understanding, leaving a sense of the unknown. New
hybrid landscapes are created, mixtures of concrete, sea, structures, hills, flora, coasts and fog.