Artist Statement — Coastal Series

Driven by curiosity and adventure, I have spent my career investigating a variety of materials and media to mine their visual and physical attributes, playing with changing forms of expression and experimenting with the new. This process has driven the evolution of my work over the years, moving from early video art and performance into drawing.

Currently, I make drawings inspired by maps of coastlines, sites of biological convergence and transformation that are increasingly vulnerable to climate change and human impact. They represent life itself: fluid, unstable, and endlessly reshaped by time. I visually interpret this through layered, abstract lines and shapes that map energetic exchanges. In tracing and reimagining the coastline’s contour, I compress multiple moments into a single form.

My Coastal Series emerged after a 2024 residency during which I lived for two months on a fjord in Norway. That experience sparked a keen connection to shorelines which has led me to create projects inspired by the coasts of Iceland, the fjords of Norway, Long Island Sound, the South Shore of Long Island, the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, and Lower Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy.

My drawings combine graphite and ink with rephotographed and digitally manipulated imagery of microscopic organisms, maps, cells, bacterial particles, brain activity, and my own cutout shapes. These fragments serve as raw material for abstraction and conceptual exploration. The resulting compositions are improvisational, intuitive, and process-driven as I crop, paste and draw onto paper.

Throughout my practice, the rhythms of dance and film are apparent, informing the gesture, sequence, and movement that flow through the images. The finished works are only partly recognizable, traces of a landscape half-erased. They reflect the fluidity of life forms and the entanglement of nature, imagination, and human intervention.