Even without a camera in hand, I have always noticed and been seduced by the patterns of light and shadow, the rough surface of stone, the tender shapes of foliage, the intersection of water and land: the shapes nature forms in all its diversity. 

This body of work is one filled with dualities and contradiction; the first most basic being that I have chosen to use the landscape as a portrait. These landscapes come from a place that is deep within me, which holds me up as if it were a second spine. I have used the outer to illustrate the inner. 

Anna Mendieta said that, “Art must have begun as nature itself, in a dialectical relationship between humans and the natural world from which we cannot be separated.” Through my work I hope to create a dialogue not only between my body and the natural world from which it springs, but also about the sensuous subtle beauty of the curves found in the natural world and the contradictions and dualities that cannot exist without one another. 

Fragility and strength, natural and unnatural, the delicate and the rough, light and dark, curved and straight, human and inanimate, limitation and liberation, inner and outer: my work intends to create communication between these contraries, to create a unity through variety. 

As said quite succinctly by Herman Hesse, “Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.”