Artist Statement
Urban Planting
The work reflects the environment in which she lives, a fusion of two contrasting worlds. The natural realm is alive with endless growth, sprouting seeds, clinging roots, plants, and dirt. The built environment of the city is a fabricated one, of structures, wires, grids, concrete, and geometry.
In the paintings, organic and constructed shapes emerge and dwell beside and within one another to form imagined places, where budding cities hinge as fragile structures. Buildings sway above in clouds and from blades of grass. Minute networks cluster and attach themselves to plants, while populations scatter among rivers of invented maps. Nature refuses to die and the man-made world comes alive, as one fuses with the other. |
