Notions of landscape inform my work. Time and process lead the paintings toward abstraction. It is the idea of the landscape, its romanticism that I am interested in. Longing for a grand, beautiful place is reconciled by painting mock landscapes in the studio. The paintings are not singular or about a literal place, but rather an accumulation of different time, light, desire, reaction and depictions.

Using patterns, ribbon, scrap paper, candy and so on, I arrange objects to resemble landscapes or topography. This becomes a mode of drawing. Groupings create mini mountains and valleys with irregular form. Making becomes mapping. The chosen objects and pastel colors add to the fantastical and fictitiousness of the environment portrayed. Saturation and palette expose excessive sweetness, femininity and idealization. At some point, my attention shifts from the place where the objects are physically, to the world that is being built on the canvas. The accumulation of paint, moving of objects, construction and deconstruction of the surface overrides potential representation, but builds a space that is familiar and accessible. Not singularly pictorial, this makes it more truthful and specific to its existence as an object, a painting, not a representation.