Flood Map Drawings

These paintings use layered imagery to explore tensions between the human and the natural world. 

My experience living through  Hurricane Sandy instilled a personal awareness of interconnected natural systems and the tenuous relationships between these systems.  Research into these issues heightened my awareness of the stress human activity places on Long Island’s waters and its shrinking tidal marshes.  

I began making these artworks after studying local flood maps which depict elevations and boundaries between land and water.  Working on translucent mylar gave me the ability to gradually build up the image in layers of graphite and ink.  Layers of ink portray flood waters obliterating and altering the landscape.