I build installations that serve as facsimiles of nature in various states of decline and renewal. These environments consist of mangled steel and plastics culled from neighboring streets and scrap yards along with tree roots and branches gathered on West Texas trips.

I document and print landscapes affected by tornadoes, droughts and flooding onto wall-sized sheets of aluminum, film, and paper. I then shape these representations of nature into sculptural environmental forms.

I am currently building a series of monuments to dying trees. These sculptures serve to bear witness to the identities of individual trees and their histories as evidenced by their tortured configurations. The work makes visible the fates bestowed upon such magnificent beings.

My social engagement practices include a project titled Tree Hugs, originally performed at Art in Odd Places in NYC. Participants are wrapped in a fabric print of a storm ravaged tree and invited to tell a story about a tree they have loved. The recordings are documented on my ArtHeads YouTube channel and on my IG.

I also build spaces of “shedding” where participants sit among tree sculptures, tree peelings and rubbings and write notes of release.

The installations allude to painting histories and false notions of nature as pristine, separate from humans, and here for the taking.