I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, but spent summers with my great aunt on the Blackfeet Indian reservation in Montana. After graduating from high school, I moved west to be closer to Montana and to attend college. I studied linguistics, anthropology and art at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. After graduation, I returned to the Reservation to take classes and work with tribal Elders on a language revitalization project. Since then, I have moved around the country working at artist residencies in North Carolina, New Mexico and Vermont, as well as working as a counselor and a wilderness guide.
I returned to Atlanta in 2008 to attend graduate school and pursue my MFA. My work often considers the human relationship to nature and involves finding magic in the everyday. It’s about stringing the spiritual through the mundane physical world and making visible the unseen cycles and energy that connect the universe. I use both organic and inorganic recycled materials in my work to deconstruct the polarization of the natural and urban environments. My work has been featured in new American Paintings and Conceptions Southwest. I was recently nominated for the Dedalus grant.
An installation that engulfs the viewer in a different world. Objects are materializing and then breaking apart, moss both real and simulated, hangs from the ceiling and drawings of familiar yet unrecognizable forms extend from the floor to the ceiling. included sound (please see u tube video), smell (bees wax), feeling (the ground was littered with twigs and park and debris), drawings and sculpture. The installation was immersive and made up of every day mundane objects. The sound in the installation is based on my brain waves while I meditate with trees. I use a portable EEG, or biofeedback device that records the wave in an analogue signal. I then use the patter determined by the signal to create a song. The sounds that you hear are recordings of creaking trees that I collected superimposed on the brain wave pattern. I also did a live meditation in the space and had an audience witness the sounds as they changed through the meditation.
Date: Wed, 05/12/2010
Medium: mixed: whiteout, collage, sharpie marker, gouache, graphite on paper
Dimensions: 25″h x 19″w
Description:
Drawing and collage on paper. Materializing Dematerializing figure.
Date: Thu, 02/25/2010
Medium: Fresnel lens, fishing line, staples, and video of gold spinning in water.
Dimensions:12′w x 12′ l x 14′ h
Description:
Installation of Fresnels lens with two videos projected on it. the viewer could stand in the middle or walk around the outer edge. Fresnel lens magnifies and skews light. the shadows are also part of the installation
Date: Wed, 11/25/2009
Medium: mixed: whiteout, collage, sharpie marker, gouache, graphite on paper
Dimensions:25″ h x 19″w
Description:
drawing based on performance of adhering leaves to my body.
Date: Wed, 04/14/2010
Medium: mixed: whiteout, collage, sharpie marker, gouache, graphite on paper
Dimensions: 25″ h x 19″w
Description:
Drawing on paper. Materializing/ dematerializing figure.
