burnedandburied communes with the natural-like world. Extensive processes transform my personal interactions and reactions of being with the unknown into a formation of elusive matter.  I am awakened by the drive to explore the small mysteries of the natural-like world and bury my mind in the depths of its varied textures, subtle movements, surprising sounds, and unexplainable vastness. The actions I take in uncovering my own small secret moments within the natural-like world lead me to ponder feelings of the murkiness of grief for friend and family-kind, and for ecological-kind, together intertwined. From this can come joy for the beauty of dark decay’s contrast against light reflections on water’s surface. Navigating by the things one cannot understand, the art processes become a spark that initiates the flame to create. This fire begins to engulf every step of making and transforming an experience into a formation of elusive material. My process starts here, in interactions with organic matter, natural beings, vast bodies of water, a crevice carved by spring, a red fox sighted on a beach.

Through research on thinkers and poets who use elements of the natural world as foci within their practices, the work explores how the unknown and unnoticed are important to the creation process. The poetic verses make sense of a way of working that has become both a personal survival tactic and religious-like ritual, defining my practice as a useful tool in processing my own relationship to the world that surrounds us all and transforming it into a form that holds space for the dissociation of these interactions.