There is a science-fiction backstory to this collection of work. It proposes the idea that our environment is attempting to communicate with us by creating characters in an alphabet. Here, the environment has a consciousness and it manipulates matter to form these shapes, which we must interpret or decipher.
While the idea is very much fiction, I don't think it is too far from reality. Let's take something like a twister as an example, a dramatic event on a landscape in which particles are summoned into very precise motion.
A simpler example is just looking up at at dark clouds moving towards you, feeling a chill in the air and knowing what is about to happen. We interpret our environment all the time, that's the point from where I depart when making these works.
Also, I hope the works convey a sense of the beauty of the natural world and make people think about how their environment might communicate with them if it could.
Exhibitions/News
Exhibition at Ghost Gallery, April 2023
Commissioned to do a portrait of Museum of Museums which was completed in March, 2022
One week show at The Factory in Museum of Museums on Capitol Hill - November 2021
Two pieces purchased by the Washington State Arts Commission, “Cloud Formations” and “Coal Creek Trail, WA” have been placed in Keegan Hall at Peninsula College in Port Angeles.
Exhibiting at Axis Gallery in Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA - September/October 2018
Winner of Excellence Award at Anacortes Arts Festival - August 2018
Festival winners
July/August 2018 - Narthex Gallery in Magnolia
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March 2018 - Some works from the series
An Alphabet were featured on Booooooom.com
February 2017 - El Sirenito in Georgetown, Seattle, Wa
Winter 2016 - Habitude in Ballard, Wa Also: The Berliner Doner Kebab, Pioneer Square, Seattle, Wa
January/February 2016 - The Saturn Building, Fremont, Wa (Fremont Art Walk)
September/November 2015 - Paper Plane Installation (Private Residence on Beacon Hill)
September 2015 - Baja Bistro, Beacon Hill (Beacon Arts)
September 2015 - Guesthouse, Madison Park (Madison Park Art Walk)
April/May/June 2015 - Couch, Ballard, Wa (Ballard Art Walk)
January 2015 - The Elysian Fields, Pioneer Square, Seattle Wa
September 2014 - The Sitting Room, Seattle, Wa (Uptown Art Walk)