I am interested in the passage of time in nature. I focus on how plants grow and die and how we try to preserve and remember their fleeting moments of beauty.
My work ranges across many media: painting, drawing, collage, photography and installation. I grow, collect and preserve flowers and leaves. I dry them for use in collages. And I make stains from flowers and leaves, rubbing them onto paper, creating traces of their ephemeral color. Many record what grows at my home in upstate NY or places I visit and become a kind of diary or scrapbook. I often use plants to comment on how climate change is affecting the plants around me. My work documents a particular time and place while investigating the beauty of nature and its transformation into art.
My work ranges across many media: painting, drawing, collage, photography and installation. I grow, collect and preserve flowers and leaves. I dry them for use in collages. And I make stains from flowers and leaves, rubbing them onto paper, creating traces of their ephemeral color. Many record what grows at my home in upstate NY or places I visit and become a kind of diary or scrapbook. I often use plants to comment on how climate change is affecting the plants around me. My work documents a particular time and place while investigating the beauty of nature and its transformation into art.
Botanical projects
Bitter/Sweet wreath
2021
vines, acrylic paint, metal buttons
approximately 6 feet round x 8 inches
2021
vines, acrylic paint, metal buttons
approximately 6 feet round x 8 inches
Invasive Bittersweet vines wound into a wreath with spokes to invoke the model of the Coronavirus. A site specific installation made for the ICEHOUSE Project Space in Sharon, CT.
12 Invasives
2021
acrylic & ink on canvas with painted vines
approximately 6 x 6 feet x 2 inches deep
2021
acrylic & ink on canvas with painted vines
approximately 6 x 6 feet x 2 inches deep
Paintings of some of the invasive plants in my yard. An installation made for the ICEHOUSE Project Space in Sharon, CT.
No Norways 2
2021/2022
acrylic on wood
14 x 14 x 1.5 inches
2021/2022
acrylic on wood
14 x 14 x 1.5 inches
A slice of a Norway Maple tree, an invasive in my area painted with a warning slogan. The wood has cracked over time, my collaboration with time and Mother Nature.
'August' Garden scroll
2002/2016
mixed media on paper
36 inches x 14 feet 8 inches (variable)
2002/2016
mixed media on paper
36 inches x 14 feet 8 inches (variable)
The ‘August’ Garden Scroll, a mixed media work on paper, records the making of the ‘August’ Garden shown in the photograph. The scroll follows the growing season from the last frost date in the Spring to the first frost date in the fall and the process of planting and nurturing the garden. The minutiae of gardening and the process of creating the art project, are recorded in multiple ways including collaged scanned images of the dried plants hanging below the time line and a reflection of their intended color above the line among other assorted data.
‘August’ Garden-in July
2001/2004
Piezo-Dye print of photograph of land art installation
8 x 12 inch image on 11 x 14 inch paper, also available in larger sizes
2001/2004
Piezo-Dye print of photograph of land art installation
8 x 12 inch image on 11 x 14 inch paper, also available in larger sizes
To document a garden of annual plants throughout three seasons, I planted a grid in the form of a monthly calendar of flowers and herbs in my garden in upstate New York and photographed it from the air in July, September, November and the following May. August Garden is about the passage of time in nature: how flowers grow and die and how we try to preserve the memory of ephemeral plants.
‘August’ Garden-in September
2001/2004
Piezo-Dye print of photograph of land art installation
8 x 12 inch image on 11 x 14 inch paper, also available in larger sizes
2001/2004
Piezo-Dye print of photograph of land art installation
8 x 12 inch image on 11 x 14 inch paper, also available in larger sizes
‘August’ Garden-in November
2001/2004
Piezo-Dye print of photograph of land art installation
8 x 12 inch image on 11 x 14 inch paper, also available in larger sizes
2001/2004
Piezo-Dye print of photograph of land art installation
8 x 12 inch image on 11 x 14 inch paper, also available in larger sizes
‘August’ Garden-in May
2002/2004
Piezo-Dye print of photograph of land art installation
8 x 12 inch image on 11 x 14 inch paper, also available in larger sizes
2002/2004
Piezo-Dye print of photograph of land art installation
8 x 12 inch image on 11 x 14 inch paper, also available in larger sizes
Niches
2004
mixed media with live plants
variable
2004
mixed media with live plants
variable
Striped plants as prisoners.
