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My artwork focuses on the relationship between humanity and nature. Using a multidisciplinary approach, I confront modern society with the environmental pressures that surround it. In many ways, I aim to connect today’s humans with those of our ancient past.

For hundreds of thousands of years, humankind existed exclusively within Earth’s wilderness. In contrast, our current society is now devoid of many, if not all, natural elements. It is in exploring this relationship that my art finds its inspiration. Using this connection, my art takes on environmental and ecological overtones accomplished through minimalist compositions. In much of my work, the media I use is gathered from natural elements that are then juxtaposed with human ones. Completed, my work is often sculptural, printed, photographic, or somewhere in between, and always finds importance in the process or concept.

My work Carbon Footprints (Four Hundred and Sixteen Tons) for example uses charcoal made from a fallen tree and was created by taking four hundred and sixteen footsteps across the paper to visualize my personal carbon emissions over my lifetime. In my piece, Deforested, a miniature and minimalist landscape is divided by a trail through tree stumps. With nothing left but the stumps and a bird’s-eye view, Deforested asks the viewer to ponder the forest that used to be. In more simple pieces, such as Where I Live, I reflect on the diminishing native grasslands through a self-portrait. In these pieces, and many others, significant influence can be found from Robert Smithson, Richard Long, Cecilia Vicuña, and Andy Goldsworthy — all of whom have provided strong precursory examples of Process Art, Land Art, and Minimalism.

For myself, creating art is a form of personal, cultural, and anthropological exploration driven by a strong desire to understand our place in nature. For the viewer, I aim to communicate and investigate nature's importance and mystery in a time when it has become increasingly forgotten by humanity.