My work has addressed the environment and climate change for a decade. In June of 2009 I traveled to Ilulissat, Greenland to see the Jakobshavn Icefjord and hike on the Greenland ice sheet. I wanted to see the effects of global warming first hand. This experience reshaped my understanding of humanity’s place in this world. Mere steps onto the inland ice I was confronted with the evidence I sought—cryoconites, melt streams and lakes, and moulins plunging to the base of the ice sheet speeding annual area loss alarmingly. At this rate it is possible that this ice sheet, in addition to half of the West Antarctic ice sheet, could be gone within 500 years. We have cast a carbon net over our world. 

In my current body of work I employ ideas of pattern, repetition, evolution, and accumulation to address our cultural penchant for excess, capacity for valuing individual wants over societal needs, and ability to disregard the adverse effects of our actions until faced with the catastrophic. This work directly addresses global warming and our current, human-impelled climate change while calling more broadly for mindfulness and conscious attention to the effects that our individual actions and inactions have upon the world. I speak as an observer of society, a witness to a crisis, and an active participant in this problem. Through a broad range of print media, paintings, new media, and installations, I ask what I can do to face this challenge, what individual efforts could effect a collective change, and how we, together, can make a difference.