Where the Land Becomes Her

2025, acrylic, collage on panel, 16 x 12”

This piece grew out of the way I experience Fort Tryon Park — not just as a place I walk through, but as a shifting emotional and visual landscape that keeps revealing itself in new ways. As I worked, landforms began to appear: ridges, valleys, and layered terrain. And then, almost unexpectedly, a woman’s profile emerged inside it, as if the land itself had become a figure.

The composition holds a kind of gentle confusion — patterns, fragments, and shapes pressing against one another — much like the way thoughts, memories, and sensory impressions overlap when I move through the park. Trees, stone, sky, and inner feeling all start to blur together.

This work is about how a place slowly becomes part of who we are. The landscape and the woman are not separate here; they share the same contours. What we walk through every day quietly shapes the way we see ourselves.

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