The Garden View and Arboretum View series utilize the translucency of Duralene and Verathane as well as technical drawings of windows to suggest a mediation of nature through architecture. Plant drawings using conventions of botanical illustration and the stylized representations of plants from wallpaper patterns further this sense of voyeurism or distance rather than direct participation in the natural world. The Traces series literally incorporates wallpaper as well as actual plant material adhered to plywood in order to question our relationship with the natural world and our artificial representation of it. The color green is used as both a generic signifyer of nature and formal component. Gesso is utilized like correction fluid in the Corrections series to erase the stylized representation of a plant on wallpaper which is replaced by a line drawing of a plant that might have inspired the pattern originally. The use of floral or plant patterned wallpaper in each of these works invokes processed, artificial, clean and orderly version of the natural world that can be used safely inside. Hortus Conclusus: Outside-In illustrates the complex and subtle distinctions between the historical dichotomies of interior/exterior and natural/artificial.
