It was August in California when wildfires turned the midday sky as dark as night. Years have come & gone, but I still feel how vividly that moment revealed my inseparability from nature. My paintings have grown forth from this moment into an expansive reflection of the environments we inhabit: landscapes, still lifes, & mixed media are avenues for immortalizing the fragments of nature within my compositions.

Stitching loose canvas to stretched backgrounds reinforces a sense of universal likeness, from clouds & shells to water & fabric. These individual scenes coalesce into a repository of everything our lives depend on – how can environmental imagery raise our collective consciousness around nature?

I’m exploring a sense of reciprocity, with stitches mirroring our infinite ties to the larger world. While ease & consumption threaten to displace our innate priorities, nature will always reclaim our lived experience.

These works invite viewers to resist the commodification of our environment. There’s no escaping the scars we’ve inflicted, but this can also be an empowering reminder of our influence – recognizing these connections forms invaluable respect for the nature that sustains us.