Artist Statement

My longtime home is in the high desert of New Mexico. The dramatic horizon of this landscape, pink mountains, and ever-changing skies become a stage for surreal narratives. I combine living, extinct, and/or imagined fauna and flora with humans to investigating how ecosystems and species are interconnected across regions, countries, and the planet.  

My current work spans painting, collage, photography, animation, and sculpture. The crossing of species in my images is furthered by the images moving through multiple mediums. They transform along the way, revealing new layers of meaning and consciousness.

The most important thing to me is that the story never shuts down; that it leaves you (and me) wondering and takes on a life of its own. My work blends mystery, humor, and the absurd, which generates curiosity from all ages and backgrounds. I seek the nonlinear realm of dreams where intuition and discovery guide the way. Ever-present in my work are dualities of familiarity and otherworldliness, interior and exterior, domesticity and freedom, sky and earth, real and imagined.