Photograph by Emma Fanning

Through drawing and painting I explore the birth and growth of imaginary worlds. My invented landscapes and dreamscapes develop out of the rubble imagery of my previous ecocide-disaster drawings, which were informed by witnessing the negative impacts of overdevelopment on wetlands in my community along the Hackensack River in northern NJ. In my drawings and paintings, I investigate the richness and fragility of a triumphant cosmos, filled with vibrant energy and joyfulness in a style I refer to as eco-futurism. Through a labor-intensive process of layering repeated mark and form, I represent stylized natural universes, featuring bright light and round-rhythmic forms that suggest optimism and possibility, and which refuse to succumb to earthly catastrophe or despair.