I am fascinated and often consumed by the juxtaposition of beauty and sorrow, comfort and hardship, and the kindness and the brutality of nature. Growing up in the desert then traveling the world, I have been deeply touched by the various forms I have witnessed of this same struggle. It all comes back to the desert, to my home, to my being. I have spent the better part of my life meditating on the question of existentialism, beginning on long hikes in the desert growing up. There is evidence of the struggle of life against death everywhere in the desert. My art is a reflection, and perhaps a reminder that this life ends, and we have to keep persisting as gracefully and loving as possible, through this harsh miracle of life.