Soft Evidence: A New Series

My new series, Soft Evidence, explores the intimate and often overlooked relationship between human beings and the natural world. The paintings attend to traces: the marks left by weather, growth, decay, touch, movement, and time. A broken branch, the impression of a leaf, an eroded surface, a shifting shoreline, or the shadow of something no longer present becomes a form of evidence, a quiet record that something has happened here. Rather than treating nature as landscape or subject, these paintings approach the natural world as an active participant. Human and more-than-human lives overlap, alter one another, and leave residues behind. Boundaries between body and landscape become porous: veins echo branches, scars resemble fissures, cellular forms become stones, roots become arteries, and gestures made by the hand begin to resemble those made by water, wind, and growth.

The paintings do not seek certainty. They linger with what can be sensed but not always named, the memory held by a place, the evidence of touch, the persistence of growth, the vulnerability of living systems, and the ways our bodies recognize patterns that also exist beyond us. Here, evidence is soft because it is fleeting, relational, and continually changing. It asks us to look closely at what remains, what is disappearing, and what the natural world might be telling us through the traces it leaves behind. Where do I end and the natural world begin?