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Fly and Find Us a New Lagoon Love Me Tender We Will Have To Live Here Together Untitled Forest You Better Hold On To The Wind My Friends See Where We Will Fall The Negotiation Untitled Area in the Forest Some Gods, Some Monsters A chance meeting with two shadows of her former self A Tree is Flame Untitled Untitled, alternate view Untitled Untitled look West This Again For Shadows Wait and Then See What Happens Phantom Limbs Untitled Birds That Live Here This forest has many phantom limbs Follow Me Untitled If We Are Separated, Meet here Untitled Silent Out Again Utitled Untitled Escape
Phantom Limbs
My current work is concerned with woods. The mysterious nature of thickets, swamps and lagoons, and the animals that inhabit those spaces, both as agents of nature who experience presence and absence, and a narrative place wherein to speak about environmental dislocation. In these drawings, trees, deer and birds are agents whom I borrow to tell stories about power and struggle and beauty, with one’s own environment and with one’s self, as these characters search for a sacred place in their home. I use charcoal, graphite, erasures and stencils to create surfaces. Much of the object imagery is found, culled from the internets, recycling real life environmental events into my drawing.

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