My practice begins with what the landscape reveals : traces of lives, imprints of the past, fragments of information and objects held within the earth for millennia. I translate these echoes into a visual interpretation of the tension that exists in the human experience: the pull between inherited belief and the possibility of renewal, the moveable and the static, certainty and change. Materials form a core function in this dialogue; wax for it’s potential for fluidity and warmth; plaster for it’s smooth, cool immovability. Aesthetics are as important as concept in my work, I use the tactile nature of the materials to illicit an emotional response, much as we are drawn to the remnants of ancient history that vividly connect us to our predecessors.