In traditional folklore the wilderness is a representation of the unknown universe. It is a place of shifting barriers and identities, depicting a space where the structures of the civilized world are reordered. Within these stories, the surrounding environment shifts between acting as a landscape and as a character itself.

My artwork is a collage of fragmented folktales, materials, and storybook images that I have reassembled to reflect the human relationship to the natural world. I combine the gender-specific storybook imagery that compelled me as a child and illustrated my ideals of visual beauty with the raw folkloric roots of these stories.

Through stitching, screenprinting, assemblage, and painting I explore the mapping of memory through a language of enlarged images and symbols based on storybook illustrations. The enlarged scale and bright colors within my work are an expression of the amplified nature of memory and fantasy, as well as the inescapable presence of the natural world.