Urban wildlife is a particular passion of mine, and I'm attracted to places where the wild and the domesticated become mingled. All the flotsam and jetsam of nature- a beetle carcass, dried plants, and animal bones- are brought together with my love of the sustained looking required of detailed drawing and paining to create what I think of as personal natural history. From this, I make vignette-installations using found objects, drawings, paintings, fiber art, and sculptural elements.

These vignettes draw upon natural history's habits of investigation and dissection as well as on the human impulse towards knowing and preserving. Painted and drawn animals and plants are juxtaposed against preserved ones. Often, specimens are laid out as if for inspection, but then distorted, excised, or hidden. In these, I want to bind together presence and absence, seeking to understand why we want to fix moments and experiences into the tangible.