In recent years I have called several places home. However, Central Texas will always be the place where I grew up. It is that landscape that has shaped the foundations of my passions and pursuits, especially my visual art.
I have interests and backgrounds in food security, sustainable food systems, ecology, and art. This website serves as a platform by which to communicate my visual art to interested audiences. For more information regarding my other pursuits, please refer to my links page. Currently, I live and work in Nepal serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
My artwork is produced in a site-specific manner, using only natural material as medium, and with minimal to no assistance from basic tools. The location of my work ranges from public areas, such as protected parks and nature trails, to remote areas that are not easily accessible. The work is inherently ephemeral, while drawing heavily off of place and season.
Often it is the small and/or simple, yet vitally important things about nature that we may overlook or take for granted. By creating works that highlight familiar or ordinary natural organisms, I hope to foster and/or heighten an environmental consciousness in others.
My work is about this theme as much as it is about adaption, resourcefulness, and an instinctual need to form, maintain, and promote a sustainable, environmentally responsible relationship with our planet.
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