The Texture of Place

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.

River of No Return Meadow, Colored pencil on paper, 29x40 inches
Johnson Creek Meadow, Colored pencil on paper, 28x52 inches
River of No Return Meadow II, Colored pencil on paper, 19x24 inches
River of No Return Meadow III, Colored pencil on paper, 19x26 inches
Kelly Creek Meadow, Colored pencil on paper, 30x42 inches
City State, Oil on canvas, 18x14 inches
Garden Pool, Oil on canvas, 6x6 inches
Horizon I, Acrylic on panel, 12x12 inches
Horizon IV, Acrylic on panel, 12x12 inches
Horizon Marine, Acrylic on paper, 6x6 inches