Time and history are recurring concerns in my work. I examine how time shapes memory, ecosystems, and our understanding of life and death, drawing from the biodiversity and quiet landscapes of the Southeast.
I use layering, fragmentation, and erasure to reflect the ways memory and history accumulate, shift, and disappear. Materials and processes become a means of recording change: stitched elements suggest connection and repair, collage introduces fragments of different histories, and areas of negative space mark absence, loss, and what cannot be fully recovered. The surfaces hold multiple moments at once, resisting a single fixed narrative.
My current series incorporates poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Oliver, and Emily Dickinson. Their writing offers another way of considering nature, mortality, and human experience. By embedding and obscuring language within the work, I treat words as evidence and partial records that move between what is remembered, what is lost, and what remains available to interpretation.
The natural world is both subject and witness in my work. I am interested in the ways landscapes carry evidence of time and change, and in our responsibility to pay attention to what is fragile or disappearing. Ultimately, my work asks viewers to consider their own relationship to time, loss, memory, and the environments we inhabit.