The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact. We are not one living organism, but we constitue a single ecosystem with many differentiated parts. I don’t see this as a contradiction, because parts and wholes are nestled in each other.
James Bridle, Ways of Being...the primary ontological unit is not independent objects with inherent boundaries and properies but rather phenomena...the inseparability/ entanglement of interacting ‘agencies’...
Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Half Way
The relationship between living organisms and their environment is the basis of ecology. An ecological ethos infuses current and past work through the layered accumulation of multiple discrete marks that combine to create dense, interconnected environments and color fields.
The Meadow series evokes the entangled profusion of grasses, wild flowers, and trees surrounding Snake River salmons’ natal streams. Earlier relief paintings engage with palpable light, felt space, and stacked life as each discrete bead of paint retains its integrity as colored matter as it is subsumed into a whole.