Minneapolis based Artist.
Former New Mexico based Farmer.
Former former Montreal based Geographer.
Currently the product of all three.
I am a transdisciplinary artist working fluidly between the mediums of photography, sculpture, clay, writing, mycelium, land, and fermentation. Within my practice of living and growing I make art that is sensitive to my more-than-human relationships. I defamiliarize the image making process by incorporating fungi and plants, involving myself as more-than-voyeur via the medium of our relationship. With biological collaborations as foil, I reflect their insights into deeply human aspects of identity: historical, sexual, gendered. In this practice I decompose my own identity, an un-composing of multitudes, to better see what, and who, I am creating. An ethos of material animacy, a shifting from it to she, from her to we as breathing relation into the moment induces care-full consideration of others. I imagine methods and mediums ecologically queered, which is to say enveloped in and response-able to the world around us, rather, the world that is us (after Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Abrams, Catriona Sandilands, Cassils, Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, Ursula K. Le Guin, Laurie Palmer, Douglas Hofstadter).
My background in environmental sciences and geography taught me how ecosystems reuse materials, inviting growth into new forms. Through farming I lived these ecological realities, experiencing this cycle intimately. I’m uniquely situated to create at the intersection of science and art, merging these perspectives at a precarious time in the world when our past is catching up to us and the future feels uncertain.
In such a windy state of affairs, it feels ever more important to ground ourselves in the lessons of the ground, the physical places that root our harm and healing. In order to do this we must speak its language, its geography: earth writing. By including repurposed materials and local species from the places I occupy, my practice is alive with its terroir. Overarchingly, an art of place, geographic art.
My background in environmental sciences and geography taught me how ecosystems reuse materials, inviting growth into new forms. Through farming I lived these ecological realities, experiencing this cycle intimately. I’m uniquely situated to create at the intersection of science and art, merging these perspectives at a precarious time in the world when our past is catching up to us and the future feels uncertain.
In such a windy state of affairs, it feels ever more important to ground ourselves in the lessons of the ground, the physical places that root our harm and healing. In order to do this we must speak its language, its geography: earth writing. By including repurposed materials and local species from the places I occupy, my practice is alive with its terroir. Overarchingly, an art of place, geographic art.
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