Limina: the point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to begin to produce an effect; the place or point of entering or beginning; threshold

The series, Limina: Painted Prayers for Threshold Times explores the implication of the practical, ethical and spiritual opportunity our planetary crisis affords. I created the 24 drawings as an elegy to the 500 million monarchs that died in a 2002 cold snap, as well as an expression of my general concern for the loss of species due to climate change.

Both abstracted and recognizable images of stamens, bones, butterflies, macro invertebrates and petal folds have been a thematic presence in my work since 1999. They function as a vehicle to explore place, sensuality, and the numinous quality of nature.