I am interested in map making and the ritual of keeping a daily log or calendar. Approaching my work through the sequencing of daily activities motivates me to create what may seem mundane lively.   Appointments, thoughts, and doodles become visually meaningful when extracted from their pages.   When looking back into expired date books, I find spontaneous injections that I draw from, when creating visual calendars of events past and present.

Imagery in my work is reflective of logging and documenting of these ideas.   It is my interest to bring order to what is happening around me and to abstract these details through the drawn line.   Lines, mimicking written text, are scratched across waxed surfaces and become layers within these calendars. Words once legible are elusive and form new meanings, while color is utilized to infer specific time and space.  

My materials include encaustic wax, handmade paper, and oil.   These materials are adhered to wood or a stretched paper surface through thin or poured layers of wax. Through the application of transparent and semi-transparent materials I call upon the importance of time and process.   As materials are layered and fused a visual palimpsest is created.

This process became apparent when I began making books.   I discovered the practice of constructing a book, and utilizing it was an intimate experience that continued even after the book was made.   It was then, that I became interested in extracting ideas from these pages and translating them into my visual calendars.   This created a layered process and the importance of sequencing became apparent. I identify these calendars as being constructed on three different levels.   The first is the act of logging and recording, the second is utilizing the various processes to create images taken from the first, and the third is the fusing of images between wax and oil to create these environments.  

We contemplate thinking about the next, while trying to remember the present; it is my intent to seize this urge. My work freezes these moments through record keeping thus, enabling me to create visual calendars as a by-product of this experience.