ARTIST STATEMENT 

My artwork focuses on the relationship between humanity and nature. Using a multidisciplinary approach, I confront modern society with the environmental pressures that surround it. In many ways, I aim to connect today’s humans with those of our ancient past.

For hundreds of thousands of years humankind existed exclusively within our planet’s wilderness. In contrast, our current society is now devoid of many, if not all, natural elements. It is in exploring this relationship that my art finds its inspiration. Using this relationship, my art takes on environmental and ecological overtones accomplished through minimalist designs and compositions. In all my work a natural element, such as stone, wood, dirt, or grass, is juxtaposed to a human one, such as plastic, concrete, metal, or ink. Completed, my work is often sculptural, printed, photographic, or somewhere in-between and always finds importance in the process. 

By synthesizing the past, present, and future in conceptual ways, my work can be both a mirror and a window for humans and our environment. In my pieces, significant influence can be found from Robert Smithson, Richard Long, Cecilia Vicuña, Isamu Noguchi, Eva Hesse, and Andy Goldsworthy — all who have provided strong precursory examples of Process Art, Land Art and Minimalism.

For myself, creating art is a form of personal, cultural, and anthropological exploration driven by a strong desire to understand our place in nature. For the viewer I aim to communicate and investigate nature's importance and mystery in a time when it has become increasingly forgotten by humanity.