Artist Statement

As a painter and a landscape architect, my work focuses on the relationship between human and the surrounding environment. In my work, I explore new places using the painting process as a tool to experience, understand, and form connections with my surrounding. My mixed media painting reflects my immersive experience engaging with the landscape through the performative acts of searching, studying, and collecting natural materials to paint with, as well as sketching in situ. In the studio, the collected materials such as soil, plant, groundwater, and rust from found objects are applied on paper as the painting medium depicting the landscape scenes where they were assembled from. 

In my current collection Season of Changes for Mount Auburn Cemetery’s artist residency program, I explore this relationship by comparing body as landscape using the concept of impermanence from Theravada Buddhism. At their core, my paintings explore the dynamic relationship between site and self and greater connections between humans and nature. At Mount Auburn Cemetery, human bodies are transitioning into the earth through burial or sky through cremation. During the residency, I focused on representing the changing color of the ground foliage and the color of the sky helps me to examine internally and externally the cycle of our lives foster a stronger understanding of how our lives are a part of the ever-changing environment.

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