My work is based in print with the chosen technique becoming part of the narrative.  I have expanded my practice into installation where material used becomes part of the narrative.  I am working with the theme of balance and value currently, and the pieces have now moved off the wall and into the space.

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Afterwards is an installation built around a fictional narrative set in an unknown time after a cataclysmic event.  The narrative weaves my personal experiences within an environmental issue with which I endeavor to address questions of value, balance, and capitalism.  The installation has a museum aesthetic exhibiting false artefacts supporting the story.  I use the museum-type environment to place a value on the artefacts and question “museum culture”.  The narrative includes the balance of horseshoe crabs and red knots, pharmaceutical companies, marine research scientists, vaccinations, sky blue blood, epic migration routes, childhood memories, baseball, NY yellow school buses, transportation routes, sea level rise, social structure, and biodiversity collapse. The artefacts reference value, balance, and the patriarchal exploitation of resource and sacred cultural objects.

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The piece 14,000km Fuel Up is made of ten screen prints on Wenzhou paper hung from a bespoke wooden frame.  The Red Knot is a migratory bird that flies from Patagonia to the Arctic Circle.  They stop off during their epic journey along the US Eastern seaboard to feed on horseshoe crab larvae.  This relationship has developed over millions of years, and has been disrupted due to human activity: specifically the harvesting of horseshoe crab blood for pharmaceutical use.  The paper is very light, and walking by or through the piece causes the paper to move.  This chance movement echoes the unintended effects of human activity on ecosystems.