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Artist’s Statement

Our conception of the world is informed by the environments in which we reside from the infinite landscape to the contained spaces of architectural structures to the details of small objects. These places and possessions describe and define us.

This work reflects my interest in place, both the physical realm and our intangible
impressions of it. My renderings are not an attempt to illustrate a particular location, but rather to describe the various places that have held my attention at some point.
 

I borrow from places that are personally meaningful, such as the landscape surrounding my parent’s farm. But I also draw from the seemingly ordinary, such as the changing light on the roofline of a building next door. Within a single form, I cultivate a balance between contrary elements: irregularity and exactness, strength and delicacy, exposed and hidden spaces. I am inherently drawn to such relationships and find them to be the most engaging and complex aspects of our own surroundings.

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