My recent paintings are psychological landscapes. These fractured abstract-ions consider the literary term “pathetic fallacy,” which is used to describe the attribution of human emotion to nature.

Contradicting associations of beauty, comfort, leisure, and stability, the patterns and fragments of my darkened, splintering landscapes come together to form flowers and gardens. I am influenced by historic craft processes, including theorem painting, stained glass, metalsmithing, mosaic, appliqué, and embroidery. I utilize these methodologies and their aesthetics as a way to manifest autonomy and experience visual pleasure.