artist statement

My work investigates the complex relationship between humans and the natural world, particularly how we represent and idealize landscapes through image-making. As both a printmaker and book artist, I’m drawn to the intersection of photography, installation, and the artist’s book as mediums that challenge fixed notions of perspective and place.

Using processes like inkjet printing on handmade papers, hand-bookbinding, and sculptural folding, I explore the landscape not as a static scene but as a constructed experience—fragmented, temporal, and mediated. My accordion books and installations expand into immersive environments that invite viewers to physically navigate the act of looking. The fold, rupture, or repetition becomes not just a formal device, but a metaphor for the fragmentation of ecological memory and the layered histories of a place.

Color plays a critical role in my work—not in pursuit of realism, but to heighten the artificiality and emotional resonance of our encounters with nature. Color, light, and shadow become sculptural elements that reference waves, mountains, maps, and pixel grids. I often incorporate scientific texts, poetry, or climate data into the image, allowing visual and verbal language to coexist and question each other.

Ultimately, my work seeks to create a space of reflection—one where beauty and loss, awe and anxiety, the sublime and the synthetic, all collide. Through the slow, tactile act of making, I aim to disrupt the seamless image and invite a deeper awareness of how we see, remember, and care for the world around us.