The Last Dance                                                                                                                                  

My artwork explores my intuition and vision of the resonant interconnections between flora and fauna in the evolving contemporary wilderness. My childhood memories include times spent playing in the backyard tropical forest along the Cockpit mountainside.  Imbued with magic, stories, and lively creatures in trees and grass all around me, the land has been an extension of self. From my boyhood as an islander to my adulthood in the Deep South, I have seen how my experience is intrinsically bound to the land. 

“Finding the true idea of harmony in nature is, by its very essence, discordant.” This paradox lies at the heart of my work, as the tension, movement, and constant transformation within each piece give birth to the magical yet tenuous dance of existence. My process, mixed-media, involves drawing, painting, coloring, cutting, and pasting several transparent layers of shapes, color, and texture that suggest a Mannerist tendency in landscape painting. The inseparable, blended figure/ground relationship, as in flora and fauna, is most relevant to contemporary landscapes that trace the vicissitudes of nature and culture.