My art is centered on locality – a commitment to steering the activities of my daily life so that they are embedded within the landscape around me. The hope is to create the conditions for new stories of local entanglement to emerge. This takes shape as an interest in reflecting qualities of the local landscape that may initially go overlooked, as a means to remind us to pay attention. I am most moved by work that promotes imagination by the viewer. Structurally, I work with materials foraged and manipulated by hand – I want to place each stone, cut each branch – stack the refuse by hand, with care, as if I can contribute to the health of my community by implementing an ethical art making process. This is an attempt at presence and at understanding. This is an attempt at somatically understanding what it means to impact the ecological reality around me. This is an attempt at building a direct relationship to the local landscape.