Unfolding

This body of work reflects my ongoing drive to experiment with technique and process. I am always seeking ways to challenge my own skills—working beyond what I already know in order to discover new methods that allow me to express my enduring relationship with the natural world. With these pieces, I was guided by the material. By adapting my methods and embracing unfamiliar approaches, I allowed new possibilities to emerge—sometimes unexpectedly, though always resulting in a form rooted in the natural world. The Seed Pod / Larva series grew out of a process that invited chance and surprise. The forms revealed themselves in the process of making, and I began to recognize their echoes of seed pods and larvae. In Bloom, I expanded on these same techniques, taking what I had learned from the Seed Pods into a the next phase of development, layering and extending forms that suggest emergence and unfolding life. The Re-wilding pieces were born from experiments with an extruder. When I combined structural elements with clustered, nest-like forms, the sculptures began to recall wild bee hives—like those that cling to the upper walls of the old courthouse in downtown Reno. With the Globulous works, I set out to refine my approach to multi-part, stacked compositions. The resulting pieces suggest organic accumulations, resembling segmented plant growth. Across all of these explorations, the natural world remains both the source and the touchstone of my practice. Its forms and life-processes continue to influence my work. In a time when the environment feels increasingly vulnerable, it seems all the more vital to notice, and draw value from the living systems that sustain us.