Envisioning environments (2013-present)
Unruly earths
Making
Writing
(2017-present)
These miniature landscape sculptures are process-based, iterative, improvisatory works. I layer sediments and fluids into a jar, and see what they make of themselves. I study, document, and respond to what emerges. At once abstract and immediate, the resulting moving and still images invoke natural phenomena at ambiguous and multiple scales - atmospheric flows, geological formations, the movement of fluids through soil and bodies. Each jar becomes its own unruly earth, accreting and transforming over time.
Given the process-oriented nature of this work, its mediums of output are diverse: including video/film, photography, and enacting the making process in-situ over a period of time.
Given the process-oriented nature of this work, its mediums of output are diverse: including video/film, photography, and enacting the making process in-situ over a period of time.
Works
Burrows: Four Short Films
Collaboration with Howard Ryan / hauras (2022)
films here
Showings:
- November 16-17, 2022, New York City: Urban Soils Institute Metabolism of Cities symposium.
- December 2, 2022, Ithaca, NY: The Soil Factory.
Watermouth (1,2,3)
Outdoor projection, Open Air 2022, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, University of Connecticut.
Meadow seed
Work in residence, Urban Soils Institute / Swale House, Governors Island, New York, NY (2021)
Under oak
Work in residence, Urban Soils Institute / Swale House, Governors Island, New York, NY (2021)
Precipitate / unquiet (2017-18)
Another planet (2017)
Geode (2017)
Fleshly (2017)
Loam (2017)
Collaboration with Howard Ryan / hauras (2022)
films here
Showings:
- November 16-17, 2022, New York City: Urban Soils Institute Metabolism of Cities symposium.
- December 2, 2022, Ithaca, NY: The Soil Factory.
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Watermouth (1,2,3)
Outdoor projection, Open Air 2022, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, University of Connecticut.
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Meadow seed
Work in residence, Urban Soils Institute / Swale House, Governors Island, New York, NY (2021)
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Under oak
Work in residence, Urban Soils Institute / Swale House, Governors Island, New York, NY (2021)
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Precipitate / unquiet (2017-18)
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Another planet (2017)
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Geode (2017)
Fleshly (2017)
Loam (2017)
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