My studio sits on the Ordovician fossil bed within the Rust Belt, the home-lands of the Myaamia people and a nuclear Superfund site. This layered landscape of deep time, displacement, industry, and contamination directly informs my drawings and immersive multimedia installations. Recurring motifs of bell jars, trees, mirrors, transmission towers, and fire move fluidly across these bodies of work. By documenting compromised landscapes—brownfields, industrial ruins, and wildfire-scarred sites—I explore vulnerability and resilience.

The materials I employ speak to cycles of resource exploitation drawn from the traditions of land art and the Hudson River School. They include hand-cut tar paper, ashes, salt, coal slag, ink, and gouache to create crystallized surfaces. The use of video and mirrors evoke the idea of portals connecting personal and cultural memory to the geologic record; the fossil age and the nuclear age serve as conceptual bookends to our current moment. These juxtapositions prompt questions about history, labor, and our relationship to the environment.

What lies beneath us? What was here before us? What will remain after us?