(image portfolio in progress - Out of Place solo exhibition at Women & Their Work, Austin, TX, December 5th, 2026 - January 14, 2027)
The installation Out of Place operates as a proxy for landscapes altered by human intervention and environmental change, examining the complex entanglements between culture and ecology.
My consideration of nature and the built environment draws from concepts of Post-Naturalism, a perspective that questions the objectification of nature as pristine and separate from humans.
Human intervention has altered the land, and the way the land is remembered. As ecosystems degrade and transform, so too do the narratives we construct about them.
I cull and gather mangled metals and plastics from dumps, construction sites, and roadsides, during travels across Texas. These remnants are combined with fallen tree parts to form hybrid landscapes.
My photographs of landscapes affected by tornadoes, drought, and flooding, are printed onto wall-sized paper. The images are collaged into three-dimensional structures and skins that peel away from walls and collapse to the floor. As fragments accumulate, distinctions between the natural and manufactured, past and present, original and copy, begin to collapse. Dislocated, they are severed from their origins and reassembled into unstable new configurations. The forms serve as fleeting, elegiac monuments to trees, oceans, land, and sky.
Out of Place does not restore what has been lost but instead functions as a facsimile, nature as memory—unsettled and continually in flux.
We are both the maker and the made, entrenched in the conditions we create.
