My artwork blends landscape and myth to create an otherworld for viewers to enter. I utilize methods of printmaking, drawing, and installation to connect external landscapes to memories and dreams. As part of my process, I travel to remote sites and create artwork to share my experiences of these places with the local community and abroad.
This spring as the 2025 Jerry Manson Resident at Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking, I created a series of monotypes responding to my recent travels through Tuscany. Experiencing Italy for the first time, I found that even within the expansive, idyllic Tuscan landscape, humanity has left an indelible mark. Every parcel of land is cultivated, with valleys and hillsides turned to farmland. In contrast to my travels through Scandinavia, there is no right to roam. Every time I sought out nature, I found it behind a wall. Yet, while human history is entrenched in the land, with medieval and contemporary dwellings concealing Etruscan and Roman archaeological sites below, nature moves freely across them all, encrusting borders and eroding walls, subsuming the human narrative and becoming something more within the ruins of these civilizations. This series of monotypes explores the space that emerges when combining my memories and the layered histories of these sites with the will of the press.