BA: Boston University
MALS: Dartmouth College

Tree Line Spirit

As a teacher of art, I found it important to develop projects with my students that had a cross-cultural theme. I am intrigued with the "cultural lamination" of work form the African and the Native American cultures. Both use carved, painted and decorated wood to represent the spirit world. They both use geometric shapes and organic colorations. I enjoy daily hikes in our woods with my dogs and am always fascinated with the linear quality of trees and the play of negative and positive spaces that are created by these lines- as if they are involved in a spiritual dance. Thus, I have been led to make these.