My work emerges from two formative landscapes: my early life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in New Orleans, where verdant land, hurricanes, and disappearing coastlines shaped my worldview, and New Mexico, where I've lived since 1989. This spare, vast landscape offers beauty and meditation while fostering experimentation in arts, sciences, and spirituality. Living near Los Alamos National Lab has heightened my interest in systems, quantum physics, fractals, and strange attractors.

I select materials for their unpredictability and ability to change, making them partners in creation. This process circumvents preconceived ideas and opens new possibilities. With encaustic printing, thought and action unite like improvisational music or dance.

Works are developed in series as different topics impact my consciousness. My Koans- Urban and Earth (2020-23) are oversized monotypes containing carbon-laden graphite and wax—mysterious, dark, almost mystical requiems for the earth. Like Zen koans, they illuminate the inadequacy of pure logic. Carbon presents the first koan: how can it be both a life-sustaining element and an environmental threat.

Ask the Runes (2024) adds elements of magic and divination. These works became doorways into intuitive wisdom while allowing me to circumvent a shoulder injury by altering tools and movements.

All at Once (2025) speaks to transformation, interconnectedness, and the tension between order and chaos in natural systems. These encaustic monotypes explore connections between root systems and neural pathways, examining how organic and systematic patterns interact—sometimes harmoniously, sometimes creating hybrid forms.

The title "All at Once" captures contemporary experience: navigating complexity, holding multiple perspectives simultaneously, finding beauty in the overwhelming moment when all life's systems intersect. Rather than chaos, this becomes a meditation on simultaneity and interconnection—the richness that emerges when we allow multiple realities to coexist.