As a child, I would make shelters out of brush and rock, track old riverbeds, play amongst sandstone, slides and caves, create different contexts for my adventures and explorations.  I would order, excavate my thoughts and feelings, revive memories as I manoeuvred through the geologic and spirit worlds of these landscapes.  This body of work is an extension of that history. I first used oils to hand-paint these black and white photographic landscapes. Then I superimposed additional figurative images that were hand-painted and collaged onto the photo’s surface.  The photomontaged images were then deconstructed by scraping some of the paint away and lifting off small pieces of the pasted forms in order to partially expose the collaged surface underneath. This process of construction and deconstruction became a metaphor for me about how we struggle, resist and adapt.  It spoke to me about how, we too, constitute a web of interconnected relationships in a continuous process of creation, destruction and recreation. In this body of work, I have been influenced by my affinity for Surrealists Max Ernst and Renee Magritte, Dadaist John Heartfield, and contemporary southwest artist Holly Roberts from New Mexico. The colour blue represents reunification with what is already known and what is perhaps not yet known between the corporeal and spirit worlds.

Photographs are produced as Open Editioned Archival Chromogenic Light Jet Prints on Metallic Photographic Paper.

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