The decisions I execute when making art speak to a study of contained and compartmentalized forms and how they might resonate with us. My work involves a series of problem-solving through creation and connection of marks. The beginning of my process is experimental and impulsive, which acts as a catalyst for a more conscious, meticulous practice of line-work. As each piece progresses, a more intentional orchestration is born in the form of a landscape. Each finished piece becomes a focused meditation on connectivity. The marks I make and the ways I connect them are often informed by relationships I find in nature. A yellow fungi in a sea of dead leaves. The way light catches a mountain ridge. Eroded rocks cradling rain water. Many of my pieces were completed after solitary walks in the woods, or hikes through Appalachia. My practice was born as a means to center and is a reflection of the environments in which I place myself.