like tangles of kelp in Pacific waters, image and text are deeply intertwined for me; each painting i make seeks a visual language for capturing the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world. these paintings are often inspired by the thinking that happens through my writing, and in both, i am continually seeking ways of blurring the distinction between real and unreal, inside and outside, authenticity and artifice.
i graduated with a B.A. with Honors in Art Practice and a B.A. in Comparative Literature, both from Stanford University. of course, i also received a profound education from transformative encounters with several people, landscapes, and histories, more numerous than can be listed here.
nowadays, i'm based in Oxford, UK as somewhat of an accidental cultural /human geographer. my current work merges geographical and creative methods to examine the implications of dusty weather and mining for mobile pastoralist herders in Mongolia. i am also interested these days, broadly and deeply, in questions of memory, beauty, atmospheres, otherness, and ghosts.
(photo taken by Brian Christiansen in Tlingit waters, Southeast Alaska, 2019)