My work imagines surreal landscapes by combining and disparate elements of the natural world and celestial bodies. In exploring different perspectives of the environment, such as pulled out aerial views, and windows to multiple views, I question the relationship we have with our planet’s surface and life in the cosmos.
I incorporate found materials, like cardboard, single-use plastic, and gathered papers to emphasize waste and the impact we have upon these areas. By excavating the layers of my paintings I explore our impact over time, pondering how nature absorbs the consequences of our increasingly industrial and consumerist society. The works examine how the landscapes shift due to causational factors such as climate change.Through found material, sanding down the surfaces and exposing multiple layers of paint and textures, I imagine the summation and results of eras and decades of impact to the earth, and how nature and the universe morph around us.