In my paintings I explore the questions that lie in the border zones, where water meets land, land meets sky, and where life forces touch. Anxieties about power and hierarchy bubble up in the edges, cracks, and seams where human activities intersect the natural world.

I pair animals with people in my current series of large-scale diptych portraits, Katmai Wild Life, and continue to prod and stir the impervious and pervious membranes that shimmer between our two worlds. I examine our tense edges, our boundaries and overlaps, and also our beliefs about them.

The oil paintings of my Katmai Wild Life series provide a side-by-side visual comparison of non-human and human animals. By placing creatures of differing sizes together in the landscape as if they are the same physical size, I challenge comfortable traditions of western perspective as well as conventional attitudes about animals. The resulting paintings are ambiguous and slightly skewed, subtly nudging assumptions about hierarchy and power in relationship with nature. The essence of these paintings lies in how the living creatures depicted on each panel approach, interact, and cross the center dividing line of the diptych. Whose shoulder is in front, whose shoulder crosses the center panel, and who or what is on top are key elements of these paintings, images that ask questions yet provide no answers.