My praxis is the investigation of my life with horses and our interspecies relationships. I focus on the area of overlap, the social, physical and psychological interactions; a duality of the human/animal relationship that has virtually disappeared over the past two centuries. These practices, rooted in the un-gorgeous, earthy, impermanent, and imperfect, reflect Wabi-Sabi. Everything is either devolving or evolving from nothingness. The empty space is alive with possibility.

I am fascinated by the phenomenon of domestication. The earliest evidence of equine domestication was 3,500 BC, Botai people, northern Kazakhstan. Mare’s milk was found on shards of pottery. A mare would only let herself be milked if she was domesticated. The horse’s feed, smallest common denominator of domestication, informs my medium: feedbags (paper, canvas and burlap),

The Aisle of the Barn is the center of my universe and my studio. It is the confluence of domestication, interspecies relationships and creativity.