My Artist Voice

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I have always been drawn to things that have been forgotten, old homes, old furniture and the stories their walls might hold. ​A rare find of antique wallpaper led me into discovering a language of layering over the old, replacing what was once relevant, fashionable, loved.  Yet beneath the layers, the history remains - the traces of lives once lived.  These forgotten fragments have become a part of my visual language.

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My recent work centers on a local homestead and how its land has been reshaped by modern urban sprawl.  I find I question the tension between progress and preservation, people and place, ownership and the land itself. ​The forgotten becomes my material.  The layers become my language.