Through various media and forms, my artwork explores the contemporary political and social implications of the American frontier myth and imagines the western landscape as both a culture-defining legend and a thoroughly domesticated, culturally constructed space. Through collage, I deconstruct and reconstruct images of landscape, exploring themes of human manipulation of the natural world, mythos, and American ideology.

With one eye toward historical representations of the American landscape—particularly those of frontier photographers of the US Geological Survey and painters of the Hudson River School—and the other toward contemporary American culture, these works imagine the eventual conclusion of an American frontier myth that is at once romantic and idealizing, yet both insatiable and, ultimately, deceiving.