I create layered works that explore the relationship between architecture, memory, and time.
My connection to place began in two very different landscapes: a small Southern California beach town and my grandparents' farm in the Texas Panhandle. Both changed slowly enough for memory to take root. Streets, buildings, shops, paths, and ordinary landmarks become part of the geography of my life.
Years later, I returned to places I had known intimately and found them transformed. Familiar buildings had disappeared. Streets had been renamed. Small businesses and neighborhood landmarks had given way to new development. The physical places remained on the map, but the places I remembered existed largely within memory.
At first, I wanted to document what was disappearing. Over time, however, I became less interested in preserving the appearance of buildings than in the process of their transformation—the exposed structures, scaffolding, fragments, abrasions, repairs, and accumulated surfaces that reveal evidence of what came before.
Working primarily through collagraph printmaking and mixed media, I build images through accumulation, removal, and repetition. Architectural forms emerge and recede; surfaces are constructed, obscured, and revealed. The matrix itself becomes a kind of record, retaining the physical history of its making.
I think of these works as excavations rather than representations.
They occupy the territory between place and recollection, where fragments remain after the original has changed. Through them, I consider how the built environment carries human experience—and how we continue to carry places within us after they are gone.
I am not reconstructing buildings. I am reconstructing remembrance.