My work explores how external environments shape internal landscapes, and how slow acts of noticing can transform our experience of the world into one of belonging. Inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s idea that walking connects body, mind, and place, I am interested in how we come to know the world through sensory engagement and how, in turn, the world reshapes us. My imagery often centers on landscapes defined by water, forms that are at once grounding and in constant motion, reflecting the tension between permanence and impermanence, belonging and change.

Having lived near the Great Lakes, between lakes in Madison, and in coastal Shanghai, I return repeatedly to water as both subject and metaphor: a force that shapes geography, carries histories of migration, and mirrors the fluidity of human experience. These shifting places have informed my understanding of home not as a fixed location, but as something formed through movement, encounter, and relationship.

Working through processes such as printmaking, collage, painting, and drawing, I layer imagery and materials to echo this accumulation of experience, where figurative traces of place merge with abstract mark-making. In this way, my practice reflects a layered perception of the world and a place where seemingly disparate parts can exist together.

Ultimately, my work is grounded in the belief that belonging is not a fixed state, but something continually made and remade through our paying attention to the relationship to place and to one another.