Perhaps one her most significant bodies of work to date is the ongoing Animal Architecture series, emerging while finishing her Master of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. “I appreciate the work of Agnes Martin and more recently learned about Max Cole minimalist abstract paintings. I’m captivated by each line and the spaces in between. I wanted to consider my own humanness in relation to one of the most delicate creatures, the tiniest birds building nests. Animal inspiration emerged from unmeasured, twigs and fragile grass fibers being placed into the most simplistic circular forms by birds to build nests in preparation to lay eggs and hatch their offspring. Also, I looked to Agnes Martin’s minimalistic drawings and her introspective view apart from the outside world. To me, her practice seemed to build a wall protecting her from the often meaningless and unnecessary excessive exterior. It was as if the ritual or act of creating facilitated the sanctuary as a place to clear her mind.”

Animal Architecture has become “a place to come home to” within my multidisciplinary practice. It is the groundwork for several other projects. Minimalism is an introspective category to attempt to understand. It requires the artist to look inward and to think about “being” and what it means to “be” stripped down to the bare essentials.

I would also situate Animal Architecture within the realm of landscape abstraction as I have always considered humans as animals within the landscape rather than superior forces within it. An artist working in this way, can’t worry about whether or not people “get it” because that would seem to contradict what the work is actually about and how the work actually exists. For now, I move in and out of the landscape abstraction and a minimalist safe haven for a “mindscape” as my work continues.