Recent work
Gerta the Grateful Goat - Goats Beard Mountain Supplies, Mazama, WA
Digital, 2022
Logging Scars in the Tongass
9x11 inches, 2022
Polyester plate lithograph and watercolor
I’ve been longing to hear the croaking ravens in the rain, nibble the salmonberries, smell the scavenged salmon on the creek banks, and feel the cycle of all lives whirling all around. Yet, as far from Southeast Alaska and the Tongass National Forest as I am right now, that’s pretty impossible. I cannot put the beauty and complexity of this place on paper. I certainly cannot paint a pretty picture of a logging road, much less hope that the ecosystem around it will continue to flourish, to function, to sustain. Eating into the heart of places like Prince of Wales island are clear cuts and logging roads. The stumps of old growth cedars, hemlock and spruce remind us what is lost to foreign corporate extractive industry.
[Inspired by Alaskan commercial fishing experiences and the film The Overstory by Wild Confluence Media]
Range Shift
12x16 inches, 2021
An unrooting collaged from woodcut prints. The background is an embossment picking up relief and ash from the laser cutting process.
Galleries
Digital, 2022
Considering the lives and hunger of beetles through a close look at their windings in exposed wood.
Dancing Beastlings
Digital, 2022
Spunky critters for a chalk bag design in collaboration with Rosie.
Product testing