“I Climbed a Tree”

This collection of work is a study on the frailty of the human spirit, and represents a close friend’s struggle to overcome through the slow decay and ultimate failure of her marriage.  The images produced strive to restore her disfigured sense of strength and beauty formed by the actions of another.

            The shapes of the leaves in my prints are taken directly from the tree my friend ascended while in search of comfort and solitude in nature, while the images veiled within the leaves are vignettes of a narrative longing for resolution, shown as symbolic abstracted landscapes and sensual figure studies.                                                               

“Day after day – everything in keeping – the wild, just-palpable perfume, and the dapple of the leaf-shadows, and all the natural-medicinal, elemental-moral influences…”                                                                      -Walt Whitman, To the Spring and Brook