I am a mixed media painter based in New England. My work bears witness to ecological trauma through combinations of scientific research with figurative, symbolic, and archival imagery. This work considers how data-based evidence, culture, and history shape humanity’s complex relationship to the natural world.
I adapt pre-scientific conceptions about Nature as narrative frameworks for 21st century environmental and climate crises. I use historic text and imagery as cultural artifacts, and repurpose mythological archetypes as embodiments of distress. My hand-written fragments from climate and environmental science highlight the inaccessibility of technical writing. Gestural marks in wet and dry media transform digital graphics of foreboding data into expressionistic symbols. These multi-layered elements examine the physical trauma of environmental disasters, the emotional trauma of eco-anxieties, and the cognitive trauma of overwhelming information.
In my practice, I consider how facts and data can be communicated in ways that engage the emotions as well as the mind. My intent is to generate awareness about challenges all living organisms face in this century of unprecedented environmental change.
Sharing professional resources for climate-related mental health is part of my practice.