Nature is a Haunted House is a series of installation works that incorporate painting, drawing, found objects, sculpture, insect and plant material, and decorative objects.

The works in Nature Is a Haunted House focus on places where the wild and domestic get mingled: the rough edges of the suburban yard, urban animals in human-dominated spaces, the borders of wild parkland.  In such spaces, natural and man-made get jumbled, and animals and plants adapt and assert themselves in such a way the notion of an inherently pure nature is undermined. The natural world is not set aside and “out there”; instead, it is here, next door, underfoot, and within reach.

The show features animal, insect, and plant life that exists near humans, with both unfortunate and beneficial outcomes.  These works are informed by the slow, accumulated examination of the wild and domestic life on North Mountain in the Hot Springs National Park where I live and work.  Each piece is an attempt to fix and capture an experience of this permeable boundary between the natural and the human.