WaterMaps (2017-2019)

How do we map something ever changing? What happens when the boundaries recede or return?

Collaborative Exhibit with Linds Sanders

WaterMaps is a collaborative exploration of place and history that reimagines glacial lake Missoula as a repository for calcium homes and wonder. Using encaustics, ceramics, wood, water, found maps, and poetry, this series asks viewers to interrogate the mythology of what an ancient lake might have held—and continues to hold—for inhabitants above and below the surface.

Atmospheric Ecologies (2016)

Exploring the accumulation of artifacts and knowledge related to mining, alchemy, and glaciation.

Accumulation frames my artistic practice. Environmental toxins build up in plants and human bodies. Texas-sized garbage islands form in the Pacific Ocean. Global leaders debate climate change policies as C02 emissions rise. Knowledge accumulates too, even as the history of one generation becomes a footnote for the next. I make meaning from the inheritance of these footnotes by utilizing multiple genres—experimental poetry, book art, collage—to exposure the palimpsest quality of found texts, landscapes and histories. Using mining, alchemy, and glaciation as my focus, I recalibrate the traditional narrative of place and memory by creating previously overlooked associations which tell another story about our occupation of earth.

All of the maps used in this exhibit were taken from the US Geological Survey’s Historical Topographic Map Collection of MT (1880-2012).