Roots and Remembrance (Click Image to Expand Gallery)
In this work, I consider what makes a thing valuable—and whether that value supersedes circumstances. Does something retain value when it is broken, buried, or lost? How does the idea of ‘treasure’ translate to our experience as humans - specifically in how we treat one another? In these drawings, I distill elements I’ve selected from the natural world—tangled branches and roots of plants mingled with the earth —to comment on the sense of isolation that results from mistreatment or invalidation. There are architectural images representing safety and comfort, but they are inaccessible, placed far from the viewer in a ruined or precarious state. These pieces are monumental in scale, confronting the viewer and compelling response to the darkness within the textures and images. More broadly, these drawings convey landscape as living, breathing, evolving, shifting - and worthy of notice in itself.
