Intention

We are human beings living into our awareness of the Anthropocene. The vitality of all earthly life hinges on humanity’s willingness to change course, to soften, slow, and to follow. We recognize that it has always been this.

It is a struggle for us humans, to embrace vulnerability as a vital and even heroic characteristic.

The Monterey Bay has been a place where I have found strength in vulnerability. My inquiry into the relationship between strength and vulnerability began with a video of the coastline that I took in 2013 to somehow incorporate into my paintings; I hoped to steal some of its power for myself. As I was recording, I made a choice to identify with the vitality and mutable strength of the ocean, rather than the stoic inflexibility of the rocks. That distinction has informed all of the art I’ve made since I began incorporating video into my painting practice, to embrace fluid forms of strength with vulnerability at their core. 

The ultimate goal of my work is to express the profound relationship between human resilience and a lived reverence for all forms of life.