THE EDGE OF PLACE

These paintings reflect transitions. Together and apart, my spouse and I navigate relational and locational shifts, moving between presence and absence as we balance his military career and my work as an artist and educator. The sky holds predictability - familiar moments framed above interchangeable localities. In the paintings, unstable horizons stutter or halt the otherwise expansive sky. The language of plein air painting is carried throughout these pieces, and the paper substrates and split canvases are portable and able to be shifted at a moment’s notice. The clouds in these paintings represent dichotomies: predictable as a daily ritual, but also ephemeral from one moment to the next - in perpetual transition. Showing up for occasions of movement and change is about making a home in the liminality.