2003-2007
Lost Land
Lost Land is an installation, assembled first at the University of Michigan, of work created before and during my time there as Barstow Artist in Residence.
Heavily influenced by traveling back and forth between Brooklyn, where I then lived, and rural Northern California, where I now live, the work explores human impact on earth’s forests through extraction & accumulation of resources, communal aggregations, and civilization building. In the 2000’s, when this work was made, I understood humanity as a virus or a plague on the earth, with other species onlooking incredulously. Now, I understand that humans are an integral part of healthy ecosystems, and have only been separated / extracted from them, and only need to find their way back.
A multiplicity of media including watercolor, gouache, pigments, clays, polymer medium, image transfer, shellac & ink on handmade, kitakata, kozo, rag and found papers, and plywood panels.
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Heavily influenced by traveling back and forth between Brooklyn, where I then lived, and rural Northern California, where I now live, the work explores human impact on earth’s forests through extraction & accumulation of resources, communal aggregations, and civilization building. In the 2000’s, when this work was made, I understood humanity as a virus or a plague on the earth, with other species onlooking incredulously. Now, I understand that humans are an integral part of healthy ecosystems, and have only been separated / extracted from them, and only need to find their way back.
A multiplicity of media including watercolor, gouache, pigments, clays, polymer medium, image transfer, shellac & ink on handmade, kitakata, kozo, rag and found papers, and plywood panels.
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