My animations and prints are of earth, sky, and horizon – vast, open landscape. I create my animations through graphite drawings that are drawn, erased, and redrawn to achieve history and motion. My prints are created by repeat printing woodblocks on long rolls of paper. In gallery settings, each are intended to envelope the viewer into their gentle space. I also project my animations on site at the location of their original drawings; here they become a marking point in the land around them. My work is informed and inspired by my childhood in Nebraska and by working as a truck driver throughout the Great Plains.  The simple, subtle land of this region is beautiful to me and provides me with great peace, and yet I have known anxiety from its sheer openness. I am also intrigued by how the mind will navigate space where landmarks are few and difficult to detect.  My animation installations and prints are intended to reveal the complex and powerful encounter of vast, open, landscape.

 

 

 

You can read more about my research of open landscape, of open space here:

Read Pursing Openness

This text is the introduction to my written work The Distance of Horizon.