Snacks on the River
Artist Statement: Snacks on the River
For one week in August 2016, I floated the Missouri between Nebraska City and Kansas City in search of inspiration, meaning, and adventure. Like artist-explorers from the past, I recorded this experience and landscape along the way, with the intention of rediscovering this often overlooked stretch of river and bringing awareness to its important place in our region and history. Snacks on the River is a series of works on paper that grew out of this experience. While serving as a record of the journey, they exemplify my own struggle between the comfortable consumption of entertainment and a longing for actual experience and meaning. Snacks on the River reflects both.
*all were created on site during adventure with most using Missouri River water directly
Adventure Art on the Mighty Mo'
Artist Statement:
Adventure Art on the Mighty Mo' is a video and painting series about art, adventure, and life along the Missouri River told through the act of painting, storytelling, and paddling all 2,341 miles of it. Each video episode takes place at a different site, in which a watercolor painting is created. Painting is the vessel through which larger questions are asked, observations made, and river stories told. More information about this project and links to the videos can be found here.
The following gallery is a depiction of the Missouri River from the confluence with the Mississippi River outside of St. Louis, Missouri to the headwaters in Three Forks, Montana.
