Amnesia Gardens

An impromptu visit to the Bremen Rhododendron Garden at dusk in May 2017 prompted a new direction in my work, as the garden appeared as a ready-made painting doubled by its reflection in multiple ponds. Since all gardens are shaped by cultural ideas about what nature should look like, and those ideas are themselves often shaped by painting, I became curious what a garden of paintings might look like and began assembling work from fragments borrowed from artists I admire combined with my own photographs of the garden. Each painting became a collaboration across time, an homage to those who've given me the eyes with which to see. The paintings were exhibited in "A Place in the Country."