Forest Diaries, 2022

Forest Diaries is a four part series of black and white photo-based work and drawings reflecting time spent in forests. The work is a weaving together of memory and fiction, and the myths that surround it. More directly the work is a visual commentary on our tense and often contradictory relationship with nature, how we interfere and transform nature in ways that raise fundamental questions about the trajectory we seem to be on towards a post nature landscape and existence.

Weather Report is a suite of 20 charcoal and acrylic drawings on paper, each 22 x 15 inches. Placed in two parallel horizontal rows, they form a 4 x 13 foot composition. The landscapes and human body overwritten with asemic text and signs of disruption disperse warning messages highlighting climate anxiety.
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Field Notes is composed of 21 drawings, each 15 x 11 inches. Together they form a 4 x 7 foot grid. The tree forms are drawn in grisaille using grey-toned acrylics on paper. Together they form a portrait gallery of trees in various states of being - some dynamic, some vulnerable, some in states of hybridization.
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Traces is a series of 10 photo-based works each 15 x 11 inches. These works layer the human figure and handwritten text with the surface of a single tree dramatically scarred by human activity. The tree, randomly discovered and photographed, bears an elaborate pattern of flat head nails.

Ghost Forest consists of two juxtaposed photo-based forest images each 22.5 x 40 inches; one a forest at its most serene and mythological, the other windswept and chaotic.