My work explores the sensory relationships that humans have with the natural world, and how we recognize these relationships. Many objects in the natural world are familiar to touch, such as plants and flowers, while others are not, such as clouds or broad, everlasting landscapes. My drawings, paintings, sculptures and books translate both tangible and intangible parts of nature into different materials, and new experiences. Small, dainty and delicate flowers are transformed into substantial, solid, out of scale sculptures. A soft, velvety flower petal is now solid, smooth and glossy. Enormous landscapes are converted into layers of paper, and housed in books. Distant clouds are brought close, and engulf us, as if we were made of clouds and could feel the soft water vapor on our skin. My watercolor and oil paintings convey a sense of weightlessness and translucent light to immerse the viewer in the clouds. I use familiar materials such as clay, fabric and paper to give nature new life. We are used to touching these materials, and can apply those tangible expectations to my translations of nature. In a world in which I am so often out of touch with nature, my work is a personal exploration of both what I know to be true about the natural world as well as what I may never know, and how I decide to represent those things in my personal visual and tangible language.