In Another Weather (2026-CURRENT)
This body of work comes from years of finding my process. Each piece begins with handmade cotton paper, and materials gathered close to home — pieces of my garden, dried plants, scraps of an old summer dress, sometimes a feather or a butterfly wing — are embedded directly into the paper itself. Onto that surface I build up layers of gouache paint, pigment print, and beeswax. The brushy, dripping quality of the paint and the fine detail of the pigment prints come from very different processes, but together they read as one surface, one image — the way a memory folds separate moments into a single impression. I want these images to feel like a dream, an altered world, seen through haze, or smoke, or a windowpane.
In Another Weather is about the way things shift. Everything changes, always — but there are moments when we feel it happening, when a place is at once familiar and already slipping out of reach, when the present starts becoming memory before we've finished living it. These paintings try to hold onto that instant: the memory of land, of place, of the gardens I've tended and the places I've traveled to and left behind.
There's something about being caught inside a moment of sunlight — light and color so vivid it hardly seems real — that I keep returning to in this work. The beauty of a plant in its season, a particular bloom, a particular hour of light. But even at their most vivid, these paintings never quite sit in the present tense. They hold that vividness and a sense of memory at the same time — as if the moment is still happening and already gone, seen and remembered in the same breath.
