This is a landscape where the terrain shapes around sites of industrial and old toxic activity. The subtle scars of human presence—vegetation as it follows disruptions to the land—reveal unplanned ecological diversity.  At these sites continual ecological flux occurs in spite of human intervention. 

Walking through these damaged landscapes is central to my process. I seek transitional sites that sit parallel to evidence of human activity. Being in these places, with my body, is a meditation on and with these spaces. I return to sense and witness the rhythms of change. Moving through this landscape is an immersive experience where simultaneous beauty and destruction are woven together in a complicated tapestry.

While drawing reference to the open promise expressed in historic photographs of the 19th century and myths of Westward Expansion, in contrast, this work portrays a tight and layered view. Playing with perceptions of space and disrupting grounded expectations acknowledges contemporary complex relationship with our surroundings.

Unlike romantic notions of preservation which serve to uphold an illusion of human domination over nature, these landscapes express the sometimes contradictory and sometimes symbiotic relationship that humans and the natural environment maintain.

These are sites that lie at transitional edges of ecological and cultural space. Places where resilient vegetation resides in quiet disregard of human presence—defining spatial logic on its own terms.