I am still digging in the dirt to understand my attraction to the agricultural. Shapes and themes I reference can be found in the fields surrounding my home. Forms that could be found suspended in trees, buried in the soil, or rusting in the shed find their way into my work. I have an unspoken, yet fundamental, understanding of these organic and sometimes mechanical forms. They speak to me about myself and they explain the natural processes of the agricultural cycle and its organic wonderment. Agriculture tells me of my own human experience. In the agricultural world there are cycles that feel like allegorical references to human struggle, a struggle that starts with fertilization, moves through growth and finally ends in decay. This process is raw and honest.