ARTIST STATEMENT

Enhanced by printmaking’s history of illustration and graphic line work, my work is reminiscent of book illustrations with compositional complexities and innumerable details. I combine the literary and mythical history of the animal with modern science to bring awareness of climate change, human encroachment on animal wilderness, and our overall need to preserve flora and fauna on this planet.  

My detailed engravings often contain animals within animals, a reference to animal cognition and spirits within animal bodies. I weave personal narrative with mythical symbols and stories which make these pieces both familiar and challenging as layers of printed relief engravings meld with topographic maps, handmade papers and brushwork. 

I create a sanctuary for animals which have no race, religion, or creed, can be as easily feminine as masculine or somewhere in between. Therefore, they can tell universal stories which weave anthropology, environmental science, and spirituality – all elements of our shared humanness – better than their human counterparts.