Wavering between scientific diagrams and abstract inventions, my work comprises a series of empirical demonstrations that compare human time and geologic time. Referencing earth science textbooks, I study the way time becomes readable through layers of strata, then create micro/macro records of what I imagine exists below a terrain's surface. Creating sculptures in pigmented wax that resemble geologic cutaways, I excavate parallel processes of mineral transformation with a profound difference in timescales. 

My sculptures, prints and installations also activate forces that are geologic in nature. Their angles, colors, textures and patterns result from the same processes that shape and reshape the earth: heating and cooling, erosion, subduction, friction, enfolding, weathering, slippage. 

My interest in geology begins with the study of the processes of the earth, but expands into the realm of philosophy and thinking about how the geologic intersects with culture. I follow, for example, how current events related to global climate change are making the geologic sense-able with new intensity, as we realize that this is a phenomenon we live within, not simply something that scientists study. 

Click here for The Way Paintings Go, a speeded-up video of my painting process from start to finish.