Wilderness Camp is a pictorial inventory of our relationships with the natural world. I investigate themes through hyper-romantic imagery which quotes natural science, culture and myth. While representing Nature in my art, I have asked myself, "How do I understand Nature?"  The question itself betrays a knot central to our technological age.  To feel Nature is simply to be born, eat, avoid pain, reproduce and die but to understand Nature is to transmute all living things, environments and events into a multitude of abstractions shaped by our own needs, and impulses. "Nature", by virtue of the human languages is always anthropomorphic.  Real Nature can have no name. 

Life on earth is a seamless texture of protoplasm dancing to a cacophony of sensations and pumped by the pulsating rhythms of stone and sun, water and gravity, carbon and oxygen.  Each description becomes an error of omission yet "Nature" remains an important emotional and spiritual touchstone; a paradise lost and remade through each telling. Throughout human history images of Nature have mapped our sense of wonder but language itself is our primary tool for Nature's conquest. To describe Nature is to fragment it into usable inventory. Any attempt to return to the Wilderness is to refute human nature and embrace amnesia. We flourish beyond Eden's gate by shouting a swarm of questions into Nature's silence. To set up Camp is to push the Wilderness away.