2022 - 2023
Heading west on Highway 7 toward the Front Range, the Lafayette grain silos and elevator seem strangely out of place. They hover on the horizon like a fragment of a memory too distant to recall. The inanimate machine-buildings recently became the subject of a local controversy over whether to preserve or erase one of the last remaining traces of Lafayette's past.
These sculptural landmarks serve as visual reminders of the mutability of memory, and the nostalgia they evoke questions why we long for a simpler time that never was. Photos, like memories, often lie and never tell the whole truth.
Today a conservation easement protects the both beloved and abandoned site from development. The empty vessels are tagged with markings and painted-over graffiti that resemble mid-century American paintings, while plant life is slowly reclaiming the steel structures. What We Thought We Knew is a visual unfolding of the entanglement of nature and man-made landscape.
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
Salt print on vellum with washi
7.5 x 7.5 in limited edition of 5 + 1 AP
2020 - 2023
Walking through grief is an intensely personal journey. My experience felt like falling into a dark hole, alone, with ice covering over the cavity as if to say it never happened. But it did, and during the pandemic the ice began to melt.
Reverie is a visual meditation on healing from the ambiguous loss of child before I could become a mother. Beneath the canopy of cottonwoods and willows along the Coal Creek in Lafayette, CO, I imagined a secret landscape that transformed my hidden shame into acceptance and grace. Revisiting the watery grove almost daily, it became the place where I could "hold space" for processing the grief I could not speak of. The gentle current calmed my mind and spirit, while the mother trees stood as symbols of strength and resilience, empowering me to tell my story.
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
Salted paper on vellum with genuine silver leaf
5.5” x 15”, edition of 10 +2 AP
2022
Wandering the streets of Antwerp, Ghent and Mechelen, I encountered many curiosities that just may have been around for over 100 years. From art installations in breweries or the streets, to architectural skylines and doorways, Belgium has a wonderfully strange sense of humor and timeless aesthetic.
6” x 6” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
6” x 6” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
6” x 6” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
6” x 6” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
6” x 6” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
6” x 6” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
6” x 6” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
6” x 6” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
6” x 6” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
6” x 6” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
6” x 6” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
10” x 3.5” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
10” x 3.5” photogravure on Shiramine
Edition of 15
2019 - 2020
The series of photogravures entitled, "Shelter," speaks to the private, emotional respite discovered in these hidden places, which creates room for healing. The images were captured both digitally and on medium format film while traveling in Scotland in fall of 2019, and rendered in limited editions through the delicate and tactile process of polymer photogravure. Available sizes: 10” x 10” and 4” x 4”.
10” x 10” photogravure, edition of 10
10” x 10” photogravure, edition of 10
10” x 10” photogravure, edition of 10
10” x 10” photogravure, edition of 10
10” x 10” photogravure, edition of 10
10” x 10” photogravure, edition of 10
10” x 10” photogravure, edition of 10
10” x 10” photogravure, edition of 10
10” x 10” photogravure, edition of 10
10” x 10” photogravure, edition of 10
10” x 10” photogravure, edition of 10
2017 - 2020
How is it that cut flowers get more beautiful as they wilt? The transience of life and what we perceive as beauty is a recurring theme in my work. There is a poignancy in these small still lifes that seemed most appropriate to render in vibrant color.
This series of small works features handcrafted images in the historic processes of gum bichromate, cyanotype, and photogravure.
Gum bichromate over cyanotype
5” x 5.5”
Gum bichromate over cyanotype
5.5” x 5.5”
3.75” x 6” photogravure in cobalt
3.75” x 6” photogravure
5” x 6.5” photogravure with chine colle
4.5” x 6.5” photogravure
2020
I was invited to the residency program at Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop in Albuquerque, NM in February 2020. This was a wonderful opportunity to work alongside other artists for a week, making photogravure prints and experimenting with water-based color inks in my work. The resulting images were layered monotypes, using photos shot in my studio and composited with color blocks.
4” x 8” photogravure monotype
4” x 8” photogravure monotype
10” x 5.5” photogravure monotype
10” x 6” photogravure monotype
10” x 10” photogravure
10” x 10” photogravure monotype