(image portfolio in progress - Out of Place solo exhibition at Women & Their Work, December 2026)

Out of Place is an installation that operates as a proxy—representing and reshaping conventional concepts of nature. 

My consideration of nature in relation to the built environment arises from concepts of Post-Naturalism. This perspective questions the objectification of nature as pristine and separate from humans, offering a more complex look at our enmeshments.  

Human intervention has not only altered the land, but also the way it is remembered. As ecosystems degrade and transform, so too do the narratives we construct about them.  

This hybrid landscape collapses distinctions between the natural and the manufactured, the past and the present, the original and the copy. Perceptions of limitless abundance begin to fall apart.  

I photograph landscapes affected by tornadoes, droughts, and flooding and print them onto wall-sized paper. I collage them into three-dimensional structures and skins that peel away from walls and collapse to the floor. They appear as dislocated fragments, severed from their origins and reassembled into new, unstable configurations. Like memory itself, these forms serve as fleeting monuments to trees, oceans, land and sky.

I incorporate mangled metals and plastics culled from dumps and gathered during travels throughout the United States. Fallen tree parts and photographic documentation combine with these materials to reflect on a terrain in decline.

Out of Place does not restore what has been lost but functions as a facsimile instead, revealing traces of nature as memory, continually in flux.  

Reality becomes provisional—an accumulation of substitutions that never fully settle. 

We are both the maker and the made – entrenched in the conditions we create.

 

 

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