Artist Statement
My current works are collections of materials, patterns, forms and memories. My way of bringing my more rural roots into my current city life. As a child I would visit my Nonna’s house on Shelter Island and my brothers and I would pick up treasures on the beach. Shells, crab claws, pieces of seaweed - and when we were lucky - an intact horseshoe crab. When we would get home we’d organize these objects into little, curated shrines to the sea.
This series is a reflection of these experiences and, in a sense, a continuation of that process of shrine-making; an homage to nature, but also to the memory of growing up in it. Acrylic paint, cut paper, ceramics and handspun yarn are formed into highly-detailed images and shapes that evoke living organisms. On multiple levels, this series embodies a yearning for a more “real” way of living as organic patterns and forms are coupled with traditionally considered craft media to create installations that evoke the past, both recent and distant.
