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Tree
oil on canvas
72x36
2022
$2800
Roots
oil on panel
24x24
2022
$1150
Grapes
oil on panel
24x36
2023
$1600
River Delta
oil on panel
24x36
2022
$1600
Maritime Pine
oil on panel
24x30
2022
$1350
Universe
oil on panel
24x20
2022
$1000
Lake Powell
oil on panel
24x36
2022
$1600
Brain Cells
oil on panel
24x20
2022
$1000
Fan Coral
oil on panel
24x20
2022
Water
oil on panel
24x30
2022
$1350
Lungs
oil on panel
24x20
2022
Mt. Everest
oil on panel
24x36
2022
$1600
Lighning
oil on panel
24x30
2022
$1350
Mycelium
oil on panel
24x30
2022
Network
oil on canvas
36x36
2015
Wound
oil on canvas
36x36
2015
Monarch
oil on panel
24x30
2022
$1350
Honey Bee
oil on panel
24x30
2022
$1350
Dragonfly
oil on panel
24x30
2022
$1350
Frost
oil on panel
24x20
2022
$900
Family Tree
digital drawing
18x24
2022
$200

Gazing out the window of the airplane, I trace the branching patterns of meandering rivers, the erosion on mountain slopes, like the rivers themselves, splitting into tributaries beyond even my thirty-two thousand foot vantage, my mind wants to cover more ground:

There’s more out there, I know — more patterns, more branches — and though I can see for miles from up here, the view creates more questions than it answers.

I land. The questions fade into the background of the more pressing daily grind. But questions have a way of answering themselves, even those we inadvertently push aside.

A storm passes through that week. Lightning skewers the gray sky, and that lighting is the river I saw from up above, as is the storm’s rain, streaming down the muddy sidewalk. And my questions return:

What else in nature branches? What else expands?

It becomes an obsession fueled by organic discoveries. Winter paints webs of frost along the edges of my windows. Even the individual snowflakes branch out in unrepeatable ways. I wonder how my brain allows me to wonder. What do the cells look like? How do they connect to one another?

Spring brings leaves to tree branches and moss to the surfaces in my garden. Nature makes infinite patterns and pathways.

This body of work explores the many manifestations of branching, expansion, and connection, ranging from microscopic subjects to realms more massive than our brains can fully fathom.