My work explores a reordering of the landscape by painting and drawing the earth from aerial views. I synthesize patterns that emerge when we back away from the earth, just as they can emerge when we step back from our everyday lives. I invite disorientation. What does it mean for our visual perception to be conscious of ourselves floating in space, where the visual polarities of horizontal and vertical dissolve into a sense of dimensionality? Above and below are no longer directions but densities. When humans stood on the moon and watched the earthrise, did our personal and collective perception of space change? My interests and points of reference include geological time, Aboriginal art rooted in Dreamtime, Peru's Nasca and Ica lines, Hopi sand painting, and East Indian women's Rangavalli patterns. As I work on the Gaia series, I paint landscapes of the environment where I am living at this time. Doing this keeps me rooted and respectful of nature.