This work invites viewers to reimagine nature through psychological landscapes that conjure alternate (or perhaps future) realities. These imagined realities are marked by adaptation and assimilation, isolation and displacement. Natural landscapes and
human-made utilitarian objects or structures are twisted, scaled out of proportion, or impossibly adapted to new roles where they coexist in a magical reality. The icebergs represent me as a wanderer - shifting between oceans and continents.

 

Images are sourced from personal photographs, shots of snowfields and mountain sides, textbooks, encyclopedias and stock imagery, connecting personal experience to a collective geographic history. I work over the surface with pencils and pastels erasing the photographic quality beneath, and lending urgency to these emotionally charged images.