My work begins with finding material: in the street, in the garbage, in friends’ studios. The paintings evolve through collaboration with the material, creating a dialogue between the substrate and the image it demands. I view my practice as a form of gleaning, both in the gathering of materials and in the collection of visual information. I am often looking to craft work, especially textile, as inspiration, pulling out patterns that speak to a form of highly skilled, cultural meaning-making. 

I also look to land and its interspecies relationships, especially those that involve the heavy-handed influence of people. Drawing from the relationships I witnessed on my family’s farm, the ones I learned as a kid playing outside, or in the current day as I drive through the southern countryside, I am curious about how everything can exist at once and in harmony. In the fictional struggle cast between nature and culture, I believe we can reject the binaries placed before us and choose to exist instead in a place of nuance, adaptability, and coexistence. My work plays within this space, enlisting the materials as collaborators and the patterns and images as fragments of a landscape where elements of both nature and culture exist in balance.