Description of work: Collage provides a sense of touch–both through surface implications and the physical construction process. With the combination of collage, painting, drawing, and additional mixed media I am able to explore contrasts such as gestural and controlled, familiar and unknown, material and illusion.
My work provides an experience where nature is cyclical–encompassing birth, life, decay, and evolution: an experience that is overwhelmingly chaotic yet, ordered within structures and patterns–where time is non-linear, evolution is ever-present, and all matter is essentially one. Nature connects the interlocking knowledge passed from generation to generation, where the forces of geological, ancestral, and historical time are fused and matter and creation are one. It is in this delicate balance between creation and destruction, chaos and pattern, disorder and order that my work is centered.
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