SYSTEMS: STUDIES, 2016 - present

Deeply concerned about our accelerating biodiversity loss, my visual explorations of ecosystems grapple with complexity and change on a visual and conceptual level. The work explores questions of collective responsibility, psychology, perception, and sustainability. I am more and more interested in the relationship between consciousness and matter, and look to Eastern and quantum physics, as well as experiential processes, for deeper understanding of our position and agency in the world in the face of mass extinction and accelerating climate change.

The Hudson Valley with its extraordinary nature preserves is the main site of my countless slow explorations and photo shoots, as are locations in the Austrian Alps, remaining virgin forests in eastern Poland, and others. To visually translate what I see and experience, I develop lens-based mixed media processes. Detailed high-resolution images are composited into often incomplete renderings of an ecosystem detail, and then printed on fine art bamboo paper at a scale that engages the viewer’s body. I often scratch the print to reveal faint traces, and at times draw or paint on the image in another step to inscribe a more energy-based layer of perception and story. To ground and support this work, which relies on multiple channels of perception and connection on site, I actively engage in experiential artistic research and engagement strategies.