The world below the canopy of the trees, the understory, is teeming with life and decay. The layers of raw materials on which I walk becomes deep inspiration for my imagery and approach to creating my art. Evocative of forest underlayers, my imagery alludes to entangled, interconnected webs of trees, branches, membranes, neural networks, flowing springs, as well as the infinite night sky of Vermont. Exploring the terrain and its impact on my relationship to the environment, I create pictorial references to textures, branches, decay, and growth, all woven together to form a depiction of my outer and inner landscape. The media I choose functions as my personal vocabulary of expression, as proxy to emotional states of mind. I consciously work with materials that help to facilitate a sense of light, darkness, mystery, and possibility.