Visual Art Portfolio
Assemblage, collage, mixed media, book arts, and material inquiry
My visual practice extends my writing practice into image, texture, material, and form. Working across assemblage, book arts, collage, and mixed media, I explore memory, place, inheritance, ecology, and the relationship between what is visible, hidden, carried, and transformed.
Through layered surfaces, found and handmade papers, deconstructed books, organic elements, and reclaimed materials, these works treat material as witness. Fragments become structures; surfaces become archives; acts of gathering, cutting, layering, and re-seeing become methods of inquiry.
Selected Works
The selected works below offer examples of this ongoing material and poetic investigation. They explore how memory is held in matter, how meaning emerges through attention and relation, and how visual forms can reveal what has been buried, altered, preserved, or brought forward.
The selected works below offer examples of this ongoing material inquiry. Through layered surfaces and materials such as stone, cardboard, jute, moss, sand, copper foil, vellum, cotton paper, oil pastel, and acrylic, these pieces treat material as witness. Together, the materials form narratives through which fragments carry memory, association, and place, and through which meaning, identity, and archive emerge in material relation.
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Letting Go: The Fall Mixed media assemblage on vellum, 2025 Exhibited with Fairytale (poem), Museum of Friends, Earth Show, April–June 2025 |
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At the Opening |
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Process & Materials
My process is material-led and intuitive, shaped by cycles of construction, rupture, excavation, and reassembly. I work with fragments as carriers of memory and possibility, allowing each piece to develop through relationship with texture, image, language, and form.
Materials may include deconstructed books and magazine pages, handmade and found papers, cardboard, vellum, fabric, herbs, earth, sand, clay, wax, graphite, acrylic, oil-based media, text fragments, image transfers, layered surfaces, and found or reclaimed materials.
Across these materials, I am interested in what is preserved, obscured, altered, transformed, and brought forward.