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Artist Statement

Over decades of practice in Earth honoring art forms and ceremonies, I have been devoted to co-creating interspecies forms of embodiment, reciprocity, and care. My work crosses a spectrum of painting, performance, video, and photography, and is shaped by the animacy of landscape, spirit, and body. At its core, this work is an ongoing inquiry into how to translate or give form to different energies that are expansive and healing.

One layer of my artwork is autobiographical. Through years of modeling and practicing Butoh, my body has served as both site and threshold—a medium through which ancestral, emotional, and ecological narratives are channeled and carried.

At the same time, the work extends far beyond the personal. The figures that emerge in my paintings are posthuman conduits and healers—beings who mourn, tend, and find joy in our kinship with the natural world and the cosmos. In site-based performance rituals—in Iceland, Mexico, New Mexico, and the rural American South—these eco-avatars have explored the tension between slowness and monstrosity, sensuality and stillness. Their eco-erotic moves engage elemental forces and “feminine” power, navigating cycles of life and death through their embeddedness in a deep ecology.

Ultimately, I am in search of how to cultivate an enfleshed ecology of activism. I ask how art can advance interventions in our current intersection of politics, economics, ecology, and spirituality. My ongoing learning arises from dreams, plant medicine ceremonies, being still, and listening to the land and critters all around.