Multidisciplinary Artist
Multiverses
2021-Ongoing
The concept of an alternate universe always felt abstract to me. Until the pandemic.
Over the seasons that my family spent waiting for it to be safe again, I took photographs of nature on my street and in the nearby woods. I went places I could reach easily on foot, never too far from home. Then, back in my studio, I painted canvases with fierce colors and strokes, then photographed those paintings. In Photoshop, I combined my photographs of nature and of my paintings, creating fantastical layer upon layer. The final step, digital drawing, involved scraping away one layer to reveal the other underneath.
Multiple layers were like the inklings of one universe refracting through another. The resulting compositions have an urgent energy that I now recognize, looking back, as the friction between a personal landscape that was deep with grief and the vibrancy of the imagined life I longed for and missed.
I’ve continued to work on this series in the years that have followed, returning again to the sensation of dissonance, and continuing to explore the conflict between the world I dream of and the world that is.

Multiverse II, 2020-2024
Multiverse III, 2020-2021
Multiverse IV, 2021-2025
Multiverse VI, 2023-2025
Multiverse I, 2020-2023
Multiverse V, 2020-2025
Multiverse VIII, 2025
Multiverses are available as archival pigment prints in editions of 10 + 2AP, inclusive of multiple sizes.

On view at Cape Cod Community College's Higgins Gallery, as part of the solo show All Things Are Connected. West Barnstable, MA. 2024.
