My painting practice explores ideas of transformation, ecological changes and processes, and the nature and behaviors of materials found in our environments.  I work with diluted powder pigments, pouring them over canvas to create a layering of ambiguous forms dusted with sediment.  Some of these pigments I make from locally sourced materials that have washed up on the shorelines of Detroit, including bricks, asphalt, soil and glass.  By intentionally weathering and crushing these materials I am investigating their temporality and mimicking the sorts of deterioration that were already at play in nature. 

I am interested in humanity’s relationship to the Earth, the materials we have introduced into our environments, and the dichotomy between the natural and the manufactured worlds.  One world impacts the other and the two collide, meld and respond to one another.  In this nature I approach my work, dancing a line between control and chance, where I am allowing the materials to act freely and deciding when and where to respond or interrupt them.  The imagery that results bounces between the micro and the macro, and is resemblant of sublime landscapes, environmental erosion, and the metamorphosis of worlds.