Mapping the Bushkill / Picturing the Delaware
I am primarily interested in interconnectedness. Ecology, the science of relationships between organism and environment, serves as the conceptual framework of my investigation and maps provide the visual language for my expression. I make prints, drawings, and sculptures that use the river as both a literal and metaphorical symbol of interconnectedness.
My recent work includes hand-rendered interpretations of hydrological data. Created by cutting away layers of ground, they evoke the process by which rivers mark the landscape. Mapping the Bushkill / Picturing the Delaware utilizes and builds upon this work by overlaying these abstract representations of the landscape with perceptual images of place. I hope that this juxtaposition might create a dialogue / intersection between whole systems and specific instances that allows viewers to locate each within the other, and themselves within both.