My sculptures are vessels for caching personal stories and establishing connections with the past and the future. I cherish the intimate details and still moments punctuating my busy existence, but their clarity can be fleeting. A weeping Calla Lilly outside my studio door, a decomposing whale swept up from the sea, the slowly eroding granite needles from my home in the Black Hills--these things feel like metaphors for experiences and reminiscences dulled by the passage of time. By creating mementos and souvenirs to document my experiences, I seek to give form to my memories, distilling them to their essence and preserving them against decay.

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Current Work

Ex vivo-out of the Living is an ongoing series of artworks informed by my work as a citizen scientist.  The ceramic sculptures are hand-formed and finished in a wood-fire kiln.  They consider life in some of its smallest forms: the various phytoplankton and aggregated colonies of bryozoans found in our coastal waters.   Using sumi ink and graphite on paper, the rain drawings are made by placing these materials outside in a redwood forest, to collaborate with the emergence of rain drops at a given moment. Using both direct observation and scientific tools of observation such as microscopes, phytoplankton nets and field guides, the work explores the intersection and margins between art and science.