I find and save dead insects; they find me.

My work is a meditation upon sublime impermanence and vulnerability as I translate my intuitive observations of these insects into meticulous drawings.

I honor fragility while I think of the drawings as empathetic odes to entropic processes of decay. I create emergent, sensuous images of insects that swell and grow within and out of ambiguous forms that are reminiscent of micro and macro details of dust.

I am captivated by the neural reactions evoked as lines and forms commingle seductively, even while they describe a subject matter deemed repellent. I am stimulated by the contradictions that occur while psychological aversions to insects instigate revulsion; my discomfort of anticipation and anxiety is motivation to focus on minute particles - the often overlooked – as alleviation.









One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.

- Carl G. Jung