My work is about the places we live and love and the way those places change and can change us. It is about those moments of clarity when we stop and for an instant perceive the beauty and sadness in our day to day. I am particularly influenced by the New Mexico landscape, as well as my time spent living in Japan and the duality of home these experiences have created. In addition, the Great East Japan Earthquake and resultant tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima created ruptures both personal and physical in which spaces I once knew now exist apart from their surroundings, forcing me to re-examine conceptual constructions of place and permanence, memory and identity.
