camellia bird

ARTIST

My ultimate goal as an artist is to elicit emotion and feeling. I explore questions of time and ecology in an attempt to face climate anxiety. The themes that resonate with me are filled with urgency; my attempt at enabling myself and others to pause and contemplate allows for at least a moment of respite as we cling to our delusion that we can control the flow of time. 

Memory and light are my primary media – with whatever physical media works best for the piece at hand. In one piece, these media might be as varied as ceramics, digital video, or dry ice; in another, a more “traditional” medium such as graphite or acrylic paint. 

Indirectly descended from the conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, my work finds inspiration in the work of experimental artists/filmmakers such as Deborah Stratman, Jodie Mack, and Sharon Lockhart, the figurative/portraiture work of Alberto Giacometti and Frank Auerbach, and other artists that push against the boundaries of what “art” is.