Aside, 2008, mixed media on paper, 49" X 84"

My current work investigates nature's determined growth amongst the urban obstacle. I am continually trying to understand how urban and suburban life's constructs reflect on my view of nature. My daily paths throughout the city and its environs imbue me with sharp contrasts of beauty and disgust. My senses flicker between the opposite histories and affects of decorative windowboxes or a fenced-in plot of millions of the same shape weed, warping my definition of “nature” to be continually askew and perplexing. I identify this distorted understanding of nature as a metaphor for an impossible search for an 'ideal' environment...fascination pulls me in and aesthetics push me back out.

The multi-layered, multiple spaces which I create are a reflection of the way I make sense of vision and memory as an urban resident. My eyes are constantly darting around, trying to imprint moments and details, but combining them together from one place to another and one day to the next. I have become more attuned to this sort of 'hyper absorption' by being a stay-at-home mother to my fast-paced twin toddler daughters...I am fascinated by their intense awareness and desire to understand, but also overwhelmed with the need to track their every move. My eyes literally need to be everywhere at once - and being a mother has h

Lots, 2008, gouache on paper, 37" X 33.5"

The multi-layered, multiple spaces which I create are a reflection of the way I make sense of vision and memory as an urban resident. My eyes are constantly darting around, trying to imprint moments and details, but combining them together from one place to another and one day to the next. I have become more attuned to this sort of 'hyper absorption' by being a stay-at-home mother to my fast-paced twin toddler daughters...I am fascinated by their intense awareness and desire to understand, but also overwhelmed with the need to track their every move. My eyes literally need to be everywhere at once - and being a mother has heightened the level of consideration I give to my surroundings as well.

Drawing and painting allow me to transpose what I cannot visually or intellectually resolve into a diaristic map of intersecting moments and snapshots.

My work serves as a means to map out the layers of visual hypocrisy in the contemporary urban landscape

making sense of the gap between new and old, care and neglect...

Urban and suburban constructs reflect on my view of nature to the point where I am unsure how much "nature" I really encounter in my daily life, and how much I rely on artifice for a sense of control and security. The multi-layered, multiple spaces which I create are a reflection of the way I make sense of vision and memory as an urban resident. My work explores the meeting ground of vibrant, aggressive life within a crumbling infrastructure...

Rungs, 2008, mixed media on paper, 49" X 79"