about me
I am a multimedia artist based in Vermont. My work includes traditional media such as painting as well as newer forms like performance. My current production is focused on sustainable art. To that end I am raising border leicester sheep to use their wool for felting, knitwear, and quilt making. My partner and I practice sustainable farming producing much of our own food and energy. My goal is to create artwork that supports my desire to live a self-sustained, community-based lifestyle.
artist's statement: refocusing artistic practice post peak oil, post climate change, post securitized debt
A new artistic paradigm must be initiated in response to the daunting challenges confronting us at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Reconstructivism, an aesthetics of interconnectedness, social responsibility, and ecological atunement, based upon the reaquisition of past creative knowledge, leads to the production of sustainable art. Emphasis is placed on functionality as well as beauty, re-localization, community, and the use of renewable resources. In the words of author Richard Heinberg, "Art is part of the necessary process of cultural adaptation. Art, religion, politics, and economics will all have to adjust...and the forms we create to express and embody those shifts and adjustments will in turn alter us." Our role as artists must be to support our fellow humans to reshape our environments. What is called for is a sea change in human consciousness born of remade perceptions, judgments, and expectations.