Raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, my immediate environment was in a regular state of flux and entirely consumer-driven. Hastiness in project completion always compromising dependability, storefronts would open and were promptly replaced with new ones, cellular towers erected, homes fabricated with the façade of stability employing the cheapest labor possible.

My inclination to the genre of landscape relates to more personal perceptions of an objective reality, reflecting specific, internal motivations. Upon reading Black Elk Speaks, a series of translated interviews between John G Neihardt and the Oglala Sioux shaman known as Black Elk, alongside works by Joseph Campbell and Carl G. Jung, I began to see potential in the transformative qualities of the landscape that strongly contrast with the imperialistic ideals of Western culture. The cycles of nature, embodied by native oral tradition, can be interpreted metaphorically as a portrait of the human condition.  This recognition has broadened my understanding of the power of symbolism in our immediate environment. It is through the process of making these works that I intend to transport the value of these symbols. Landscape interpretation, dependent on the gaze of the viewer, offers a substitution of authorship that I often attempt to address in the development of a piece.

I currently work with various drawing and painting techniques; it is in the past three years that I have begun to focus on a more meditative method involving an assortment of translucent and reflective materials.