I work from my own photographs of edgelands: fragments of wild habitat imperiled by development or other anthropogenically altered patterns of nature.  Places that, though fragile in the context of our actions, persist in their wildness.  Over and over, I return to these spaces with my camera, documenting their senescence, regeneration and, in some cases, vanishing.

As I make this work, things are happening in the world at a pace and intensity that overwhelm.  In the layered process of making these gouache on paper bag paintings, I find a kind of elegy and song that connects with deep time, slow change, and the unfolding of natural cycles and seasons that, I hope, convey a sense of story of these spaces.  In the studio, I fall into color and line and surface: how the paint sinks into the tooth and folds of a brown paper bag, already alive in its object-ness, and how color saturates the silk thread that holds the fragments together.  The paintings that emerge from this process resonate with saturated hues and a beauty that I hope will elicit new connections to the natural world: how we see and shape it, our place within it and the potential that a deepened awareness has to heal a fragmented world.  A line unfurls and describes an arc across the paper - evoking tree, sky, space and light.  Through Beauty, a way to breathe.