My paintings examine systems under pressure through images of water, roads, geological formations, and unstable architectures. Working across gouache, ink, and egg tempera, I approach painting as a way of observing how environmental, political, and psychological forces move through both built and natural structures.

Raised in Moab, Utah, I developed an early awareness of land as something active rather than passive. The desert revealed pressure slowly through erosion, exposure, drought, and extraction. Living in California later expanded this awareness through fire, coastal instability, flooding, and shifting environmental systems. These experiences continue to shape my interest in landscapes that register accumulation, disruption, adaptation, and change.

Recent bodies of work explore roads being absorbed back into surrounding terrain, waves destabilizing symbolic structures, and environmental systems behaving beyond human control. Across these projects, I am interested in permeability, transformation, and the instability of fixed boundaries between human systems and ecological force.

My practice increasingly considers painting as a responsive field rather than a static image. Repetition, fragmentation, accumulation, and shifting spatial relationships operate as ways of tracing pressure, transmission, and forms of distributed force across environments and bodies. Rather than illustrating collapse, the work focuses on states of transition where structures begin to reorganize, dissolve, or adapt under sustained conditions of stress.