Forest Time began with a collection of papers. It ends with an invitation to return to the forest and continue the conversation.

Visitors often approach the artist books cautiously. They lean closer. They look at the pages. Then they ask if they are allowed to touch them. Yes. Please do. Five of the books rest on tables. [...]

On my first research visit to the property, I looked up into an old red cedar. I stopped. I was stunned. Staghorns covered its thick, heavy branches. Rich green flourishes adorned them. Smothered [...]

A landscape is often seen as something viewed from a distance. In Living Traces, one of the groupings of artwork in my Ghosts of Gondwana exhibition, you encounter it through physical contact.

The blind embossings in Hidden Relationships artwork series were always meant to be partly concealed. That was not a problem to solve. It was part of the meaning of the work.

At first, the embossings can be easy to miss. The cyanotype plant form is what you see first. Move closer and the light begins to catch subtle rises and hollows in the white paper behind it. A [...]

Awe begins with close attention. I set out to make work about close attention. To share the awe that can be experienced when we slow down and really look. What I did not know was what that work [...]

An artist book inspired by a giant Blue Quandong The first time I saw her, I was walking along a track high on the hillside, looking down into the forest. I was still beneath her canopy, and [...]

The exhibition has opened! Seeing the work displayed together for the first time was surreal. For months, I had experienced the work in pieces. I stored finished pieces between sheets of paper [...]

“Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.” — Katrina Mayer. This quote was the starting point for my newest artist book. What happens when we spend time among trees? What shifts? What do we [...]