I seek to create a peaceful space, utilizing nature’s rhythm and order. Through repetitive arrangements of familiar forms in nature, the specific organisms and surfaces of nature tend to change, to blend. Land and sea life merge, and inhabit the same built out spaces like tide pools and caves. Exact depictions of a certain plant or rock are interpreted, and when put to paper become their own. Since moving to Oregon, I've started developing my own library of sorts, such as a book of rocks that serves to developer my own visual language. By limiting myself to one pen, along with other imposed parameters, I am able to dig deeper into the nuances of these created spaces. I hope that when the viewer to tries to identify specifics, they draw from their own knowledge and memories.

Lately I have primarily drawn cats, attempting to capture their way ( or what I imagine they'd be like if they could share our habits, like drinking coffee). Cats are incredible, historical, and I believe are full of similar wonder, curiosity and temperament as ourselves.

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