In my work, I reach towards connecting with more-than-human and spiritual subjectivities through ritualized drawing, organic and found object assemblage, and clay sculpture. My subject matter is often the natural landscape, as a site of numinous or mystical encounters. Graphite rubbings, shadow tracings, asemic texts, and clay prints of natural objects are the remnants of my attempts to interpret the messages of the non-human world.
I often derive imagery from myths and fairytales, as well as my own fantasies about embodiment that exceeds human norms. My practice has an inherently queer and transgender lens, seeking out misfit beings and places that traverse the material and the spiritual, the past and the present, the human and non-human, the ugly and beautiful, the real and unreal.
Collecting and collage are essential processes in my practice. My recent sculpture work combines seaweed, shells, clay, mica, flowers, and other materials that I source from important locations in my life, from the beaches of the San Francisco Bay Area to the forests of Central North Carolina. I assemble these materials into talismanic objects and humanoid figures, born from a hybrid experience of both gender and place.
