Consisting of watercolor, gouache, screenprint and cut-paper, my work focuses on subjects often associated with tragedy and loss. With sources that range from eyewitness accounts and photographs of large-scale disasters to smaller-scale depictions human suffering and accidents downloaded from the Internet, I work to explore my own experience in relation to tragic public events.

Most recently I have been traveling to sites of disaster pictured in historic news photographs and re-photographing the ephemeral qualities of each site, focussing instead on fleeting presences and things left behind, such as mattresses dumped in the woods, clouds floating overhead, wildflowers growing up though the cracks in the sidewalk, or textual accounts from eyewitnesses. Using a compassionate process that is part requiem and part cathartic obsession, I translate these presences into thousands of sinuous loops of undulating color, intricately stacked and cut paper flowers, and diluted layers of watercolor to inscribe these images with traces of my own gestures, simultaneously testing the imprint of my own presence while evoking ideas about memory, loss and grief.