My artworks have been shaped by the reactions I have had to the sites they occupy, trying to explore new ways of shifting your perception of the site itself and trying to connect you to your immediate natural environs.

What is our relationship to nature in the 21st century, with climate change being one of the greatest threats that we face, and becoming so much a part of how we see the world? And how should we be rethinking our relationship to this world? In my work I find myself intrigued with trying to forge a connection back to the natural world-to maybe get you to pause and listen and take a closer look at what is all around us, things you may not have looked at or listened to since you were a child. Gray and Green: Maya Lin at Madison Square Parkĭaniel Wolf, Collector Who Helped Shape Getty's Photography Holdings, Has Died These sentiments and concerns I still carry with me, but with climate change threatening the planet and us, it has become a more and more urgent issue for me. Growing up, I was extremely aware of how the actions of one species, mankind, was having such a damaging effect on the environment. My relationship to the natural world was formed playing in those hills, but I was equally influenced in those years by the emergence of the environmental movements that shaped how governments created protections for cleaner air and water, and for endangered species. It grew into a long winding ridge, and ended in what, to my brother and me, looked like the head of a lizard. I called the middle one the “lizard’s back” because it started up from the creek bed, like a tail. Behind our house were three forested ridges separated by streams my entire childhood was spent playing in those woods and on those hills. I grew up in Athens, Ohio, surrounded by woods. So many of us live in cities, and are so removed from nature.

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