Artist Statement

I am an environmental artist working in response to site. My practice begins with direct, embodied engagement with landscape—walking, listening, gathering—meeting and responding to place. Through ephemeral interventions, permanent installations, sound, photography, and mixed media works, I explore how environments hold memory and how human presence intersects with the more-than-human world.

For over two decades, I have worked within geo-specific environments, examining how identity, culture, and technological systems shape—and are shaped by—the land. I approach each site intuitively, allowing its particular histories, ecologies, and atmospheres to guide the work. Research into local narratives and ecological systems follows the initial engagement, deepening the process and revealing connections that extend beyond the visible surface.

From 2015–2025, this inquiry expanded into Alchemy Farm, a ten-year site-based environmental project on Salt Spring Island. What began as the rehabilitation of a neglected landscape evolved into a sustained ecological and artistic practice rooted in pollinator habitat cultivation, seasonal rhythms, and long-term attention to site. The farm functioned as both artwork and evolving environmental system—an immersive space where restoration, making, and community participation intersected. The project culminated in the Alchemy Sequoia Circle, a land-based intervention integrating ecological process, relational exchange, and cyclical time.

Today, my practice moves between site-responsive projects and studio-based investigations. I continue to create permanent and ephemeral works in situ while translating these experiences into layered photographic and mixed media compositions. Across scale and context, the practice remains grounded in ecological awareness and an ongoing inquiry into how we inhabit—and are inhabited by—the landscapes we move through.