Process
My paintings incorporate or are entirely created with handmade paint. I collect minerals, bones, ash, and rust from meaningful locations; my great-grandmother’s former home, the forests our community helped to protect, the river that is our water-source, our city in disrepair. I grind the objects into pigment to mix with oil, local pine sap, and beeswax raised by my neighbor. The result is far from refined so the paint retains the qualities of its past life.