The transmutation is made of silk swath. It is survived by the nutriment and excrement of every wild creature that swallows the sun. By keratin and lipids shed from the adder renewed. By viscous seed held hot and dark until parturition gives light to crying breath. And when I take my conquering blade to strike at conifer, alchemized earth burgeons another in its decollated place. It lives in rot the most, but also within immeasurable waters and scathing alight. By way of a fool who, despite it all, dies sagacious. There is never nothing and always something, it moves unending, paying no heed to those who fable fervent promises of change not before seen. Yet I know the secret and it stares with crescent eyes, sometimes with full eyes too—it says that the cycle is transformative, rising and of ash and rising anew.
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The transmutation is made of silk swath. It is survived by the nutriment and excrement of every wild creature that swallows the sun. By keratin and lipids shed from the adder renewed. By viscous seed held hot and dark until parturition gives light to crying breath. And when I take my conquering blade to strike at conifer, alchemized earth burgeons another in its decollated place. It lives in rot the most, but also within immeasurable waters and scathing alight. By way of a fool who, despite it all, dies sagacious. There is never nothing and always something, it moves unending, paying no heed to those who fable fervent promises of change not before seen. Yet I know the secret and it stares with crescent eyes, sometimes with full eyes too—it says that the cycle is transformative, rising and of ash and rising anew. 〰️
By envisioning the process of making as the creation of gateways, I intend to let my art objects exist as Spells—as visual manifestations of numinal curiosity. I draw from archetypes, trodding down wellworn paths to bridge temporal gaps between symbols of the past and transformed present meanings.
Melding found materials such as wooden clock parts, old book pages, antique charms, wooden textile stamps with processes such as printmaking, spun cotton, metalcasting and soldering, I work to make intimately surreal portals into the archaic mind. At times, my processes demand a relinquishing of control which lends space for the work to be a conversation between artist and object, with the intention of revealing something that is as innately personal as it is collectively reflective. Illustrating with gelli-plate printmaking and oil painting, I create scenes and creatures and sentiments which rely upon the compositing effect of intuitive decision making.
The influence of myth and story is ever present in the imagery I utilize, with a focused eye on iconography from an epoch of history in which the unknown was a grand and living Thing; a time where the forests were dark and creatures were strange. Where nature was both more supernatural and more familiar than it is to most of us now. I am interested in illustrating the collision of symbolic dualities and making art that chases the elusivity of magic in modernity.
Select Works
2023-present
