Garden of Eden 2025-2026

Sometimes I think the best way for me to create change is to go to the place of Original Story to disrupt the narratives and their visual traditions. Over the past two years, I have been going to the Garden of Eden.

With the constant turnover of technology, including the newest addition of AI, I often regard our changing world through the lens of a species that is knowledge- and tool- hungry (I call that Homo technicus), compelled to improve and revise. Conversely, we humans also seem hungry for profound connection, meaning, and the spiritual. I wrestle with these categories when I’m in my own East Bay garden, or feeding my children, or driving to work, filtering the idea of progress through my lens as a woman, mother, and educator, trying to keep my world alive and thriving.

The story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is the story of the inevitable and insatiable drive for knowledge at a symbolic and archetypal level. It offers endless possibilities to explore the body as a site for conflicting stories of power and blame. The messy relationships between knowledge, technology, body and nature seem overgrown and entangled in this garden of Eden, a story/place that while ancient, continues to be relevant, retold and fraught. Amidst this messy Garden of shadow and idea, I am looking for redemption, balance, and beauty.

These images are musings… invitations to witness, inquire, hope, heal, and laugh at the crazy paradox that we are.

In my work, there are always three different elements, the unpredicted, the collage and the ink. The first part of my process is harnessing the unexpected: in this series it comes in the form of the black silhouettes, which I cut without drawing. Most arise just from the risky endeavor of making cuts without a plan or a promise and regarding what comes from that. The second part of my practice is about collage, and the surprising conversation that happens between materials that have their own history and visual and graphic presence. The third part of my practice has to do with ink in some capacity, either with the figure drawn with brush and ink, Japanese marbling techniques, or the pen. This part of my practice is about the virtuosity of line. Ink captures and archives my movement as it reaches for the barely-there, the whisper, the body in motion.

These images are discovered, and I look for an unexpected dialogue between the elements. If I laugh, the work is done.

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