I am a Brooklyn-based artist and poet working abstractly at the intersection of painting, collage, tapestry, recycled textiles, and sculpture. My work is about climate change: I create energetic monuments to the natural world that express power as ecologically conscious and radically empathetic. Environmental advocacy and interspecies connection are at the forefront of my projects.

 

The physical surface of my visual art features collaged layers of painted acrylic on canvas pieces alongside weaving and textile elements. My work is a tapestry of textured surfaces and layered colors with detailed moments of unexpected materials. To make this work, I combine histories of painting and tapestry, reimagining their material languages to include a diverse range of craft, decorative, and feminist legacies. 

 

I create empathetic monuments to the natural world that break down imagined boundaries between humans and the environment in a time of climate crisis. I weave multiple perspectives into my artistic landscape, including scientific, narrative, mythological, and spiritual legacies, which also inform my creative process. I consider perspectives as small as the microscopic elements of ecosystems and as vast as the larger energy of the cosmic universe. My deep connection to the natural world and my personal observations in the landscape allow me to express an emotional core that I believe is vital to artistic work around climate change. I am currently working on an art and poetry series about my experiences in Svalbard, an archipelago close to the North Pole, and an epicenter for accelerated climate change.