I am a painter and a writer, a storyteller whose work inhabits light, memory, and landscape. I am curious how people and places simultaneously imprint each other, how the love, loss, and surprise of generations sculpt the earth. Guided by my studies of environmental science, I follow land use, climate change, and the transitional spaces where habitats and ecosystems overlap, creating areas of heightened biodiversity. One such poetry lies along the edges of city, where our built world dissolves into natural elements. In this inter-seeding of humans and place, I sense the age of a land inscribed by time, weather, and hands. My work asks the name of things growing and alive. I explore the edge of colors, how they dull or fizz in conversation. My paintings seek the quality of light that makes a place known. Shadows that are a mark of specific time, a trace of circumstance and materiality.