About the Artist

Artist Statement

My practice begins with curiosity about the natural world and the systems we use to observe, measure and understand it. I work across sculpture, printmaking, installation and material experimentation, drawing from environmental data, natural processes and reclaimed materials to explore the space between information and experience.

Weather data has been an important doorway into my practice, but it is not the destination. Increasingly, I am interested in the larger systems behind that information—the environmental processes, relationships and forces that shape the natural world, and the ways we attempt to observe and understand them. A temperature, rainfall event or storm can provide the initial data, but I am less interested in illustrating what happened than in what happens when that information is removed from its familiar context. I abstract data into shapes, patterns and sculptural forms until its origins become difficult to recognize. Information becomes material.

This slowing and obscuring of data is intentional. We encounter environmental information through an overwhelming stream of graphs, statistics, headlines and images, yet more information does not necessarily create greater understanding. I am interested in whether beauty, ambiguity and physical experience can offer another way in—allowing curiosity to precede explanation.

Material experimentation is central to this inquiry. I crush discarded glass into sand, reshape bottles, layer translucent surfaces, make impressions from landscape, and test processes that mimic erosion, sedimentation, fracture and accumulation. Increasingly, I approach this experimentation as a form of observation: establishing conditions, introducing variables, documenting change and allowing unexpected results to redirect the work. This movement between artistic intuition and scientific ways of investigating the world has become an important part of my practice.

Across these different materials and processes, light, luminosity and transformation remain recurring elements. I am drawn to surfaces and objects that attract before they explain themselves. Beauty creates attention; attention creates curiosity; and curiosity can make us look again.

Rather than translating complex environmental systems into simple answers, my work creates spaces in which information can become strange, physical and open-ended. I am interested in what becomes visible when we encounter familiar systems differently—and in art’s ability to shift perception before asking us to understand.