Artist Statement — Coastal Series

For several decades, I have explored the intersections of art and technology through mediums ranging from experimental video to painting and drawing. My work is grounded in sensory experience — what it feels like to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch — and in the belief that perception is shaped not just by thought, but by the body. I think not in words, but through materials.

My current series of drawings focuses on coastal environments. These places — neither fully land nor sea — are sites of biological convergence and transformation, increasingly vulnerable to climate change and human impact. I interpret this through layered, abstract lines and shapes that map unseen life forms and energetic exchanges.

The Coastal Series emerged after a residency in 2024, where I spent two months living on a fjord in Norway. That experience sparked a keen connection to shorelines, and since then I’ve created work 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, organs, bacterial particles, brain activity, and my own cutout shapes. These fragments serve not as scientific documentation but as raw material for abstraction and conceptual exploration. The resulting compositions are improvisational, intuitive, and process-driven. I crop, combine, paint, paste, and draw onto paper, allowing unexpected relationships to emerge between natural and technological elements.

The finished works provide only partial recognition, traces of a speculative biology or memories of a landscape half-erased. They reflect the fluidity of life forms and the entanglement of nature, imagination, and human intervention.

Ultimately, my work invites viewers to consider how we perceive and interact with life beyond the visible spectrum, and how art might act as a conduit between scientific observation, sensory experience, and poetic interpretation.