My creative activity grows out of two central interests: mark making and the paradox of impermanence as constant. I use marks to signify my presence and acknowledge its fleeting quality.
In the landscapes of the Southwest, I create temporary, site-specific drawings. Marks, made with both natural and art materials, are combined with elements of the land and time-based processes to express poetics of the ephemeral. These occurances are documented with photographs. The marks are created to dissolve within a relatively short period- from a few moments to a few weeks. A delicate, visual language speaks of connection and tenuousness at once- thread or sand as a mark or watercolor on stone. The works are evidence of a human need to acknowledge one's presence and consciousness while engaging Other- including the land itself, or beings inhabiting the same land, in past, present or future time. Also, the works record a dialogue with a specific landscape.
Collected ephemera such as sticks, sand, leaves or stones are used to inspire a vocabulary of marks on paper - from small to large scale. Elements from these objects are abstracted to create rhythmic, calligraphic and fragile marks. The work exhibits a playful vision a patterned language of the living universe.
Impermanence reminds us of mortality and bounded time. My work reveals my presence as fleeting/poetic/potent/vulnerable. The marks record a dialogue that straddles boundaries of land-human relationships, human use of/ activity in the land, and the embodied experience of specific locations vs. romanticized domination/ownership of land.
Through these works, I share mediations that occur within Southwestern landscapes and metaphors for the ephemeral quality that connects all life to the inscrutable and the Infinite.