Scarring the Earth With Desire
2024
Skylab Gallery
Columubs, OH

Scarring the Earth with Desire, is a body of work exploring survival aesthetics through research on the entanglements of tourism and climate change in tropical environments. Working with material studios and printed ephemera, the work references ways that image, language, ecology, and production frame perception around survival and leiure through the built environment and exoticized travel. Through abstract thinking and speculative research, this exhibition highlights the slippages between crisis and stability through short-sighted perspectives on destination utopia. 

As an artist, I’m interested in the split-difference between perception and reality, and how collage, print, and material sciences can act as a metaphor for the construction, deconstruction, learning, and unlearning of how we think about climate change and leisure. Each of these works pull from research to reimagine and forge new ways of thinking about our role and connection to environmental kinship. 


Silicon Time
2024
Installation, blue painter’s tape, latex print on vinyl, photocopies, drawing on tape backed irridescent and survival mylar, drawing on water filled glass vessels, kiln formed glass, quilted fabrics, and painted garden stakes
Variable Dimensions, Approx 120” by 100” by 20”
Silicon Time (detail)
2024
Installation, blue painter’s tape, latex print on vinyl, photocopies, drawing on tape backed irridescent and survival mylar, drawing on water filled glass vessels, kiln formed glass, quilted fabrics, and painted garden stakes
Variable Dimensions, Approx 120” by 100” by 20”
Silicon Time (detail)
2024
Installation, blue painter’s tape, latex print on vinyl, photocopies, drawing on tape backed irridescent and survival mylar, drawing on water filled glass vessels, kiln formed glass, quilted fabrics, and painted garden stakes
Variable Dimensions, Approx 120” by 100” by 20”
i went on vacation and got my ass ate by the sun
2024
DTF transfer on t-shirt
Dead Zone
2024
Latex print on vinyl banner
36” by 32”
Attraction
2024
Installation, UV print on tyvek, quilts from printed fabrics and survival blankets, inkjet print on transparency, synthetic plant, mirrored and sandblasted vessel, garden rocks, fishing line, clips, and bamboo fence
Variable dimensions
Attraction (detail)
2024
Installation, UV print on tyvek, quilts from printed fabrics and survival blankets, inkjet print on transparency, synthetic plant, mirrored and sandblasted vessel, garden rocks, fishing line, clips, and bamboo fence
Variable dimensions
Attraction (detail)
2024
Installation, UV print on tyvek, quilts from printed fabrics and survival blankets, inkjet print on transparency, synthetic plant, mirrored and sandblasted vessel, garden rocks, fishing line, clips, and bamboo fence
Variable dimensions
Attraction (detail)
2024
Installation, UV print on tyvek, quilts from printed fabrics and survival blankets, inkjet print on transparency, synthetic plant, mirrored and sandblasted vessel, garden rocks, fishing line, clips, and bamboo fence
Variable dimensions
All eyes on deck
2024
Screen print on drafting mylar
17” by 24”
Base and Following the Line
2024
Diptych, screen print on drafting mylar
18” by 24” each
Paradox
2024
Screen print on drafting mylar
42” by 36”
Produce, Protect, Project
2024
Screen print on drafting mylar, appliquéd survival blankets
42” by 30”
Push
2024
UV print on tyvek with screen print overlay
20” by 40”
Pressue
2024
UV print on tyvek with screen print overlay
40” by 54”
Wings
2024
DTF  transfer on t-shirt