I was raised in the Midwest and have since lived in cities across the continental U.S., each leaving its own trace in my paintings.
My work glimpses narratives of personal, political, and climate anxiety and the sometimes-fruitful search for hope. In that search, I turn with reverence toward the natural and material worlds of the regular, the overlooked, and the quietly enduring.
I’ve been investigating the notion of the apocalyptic: not in a biblical sense of rapture or cataclysm, but as the slow, uneven collapse of totalizing structures like capitalism, democracy, and human domination. Much of my recent work focuses on plants and animals as living subjects - portraits of a kind - re-centered, yet deeply affected by human activity. Nothing in the world ends all at once; this great dying we’re living through unfolds unevenly, scattered across time, geography, species, weather systems, and socioeconomic forces.
Through paintings of dream-like, invented scenes and environments, I explore the tension between terror and tenderness - the quiet but urgent desire to connect with one’s surroundings and the vulnerability to threat that connection requires. Violence and grief are often present, yet moments of peace and beauty persist, if we can bear to keep looking.