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Artist Statement My recent work reflects a preoccupation with the powerful archetype of the circle. The boundary of the circle confines, defines and necessitates new compositional frameworks for the figurative and linear elements of an image. In the Fall of 2007, I experimented with printing circular images using Plexiglas and copper plates on leaves. The leaves have a limited life span. Dried leaves and flowers have been known to last for well over a hundred years, but since the leaves used in my work are not chemically preserved, they will eventually decompose. A leaf that has fallen from a tree in November captures a moment in the growth and life cycle of a tree, and the transient beauty inherent in the inexorable march of the leaf from birth to death. Artists create images to make their imprint on the world so that when they die they leave something behind that shows their passage, that they existed. But, like with a fallen leaf, the art object will also decompose and disappear, only to reappear in the world as something similar, but not the same.
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