Soft geography (after Christo and Jeanne Claude)

Geotextiles are used at glacial tourist attractions and ski resorts. Essentially enormous, reflective blankets, they are put over ice in the summer. In a gesture at once naive, tender, and seemingly futile, their purpose is to slow accelerating glacial melt. Unfathomable at any larger scale than a single ski hill, geotextiles are literally geologic bandages.

These images are speculative installations inspired by the the futility and softness of geotextiles, augmented to the awesome (i.e. awe-inspiring) scale of landworks, and are the basis for larger, on-going projects. 

2022 - ongoing

Speculative photographs created with photographs, Photoshop, and MidJourney

Absconding from urgency

This is a sculpture created from clay, metal, and prints repurposed from other works. To create the prints, I searched the creative commons for photographs of the Athabasca glacier spanning from 1940 to present day. I stitched them together using Photoshop’s image stitch function, which predicts each photo’s most likely neighbour. This created a “speculative” landscape of the glacier, which spans not only distance, but also time. I then printed this image on photolithography plates, and deconstructed the landscape once again by cutting it up and reinstating it into 3D space in this sculpture.

Twenty Inklings, A Broken Double Helix, Absconding from Urgency, 2023


58 x 32 x 29 inches

steel rod, rivets, repurposed UV prints on steel, repurposed UV prints on reclaimed emerald lithography plates, clay, copper

2023

seires of 3 UV prints on reclaimed lithography plates

30 x 14.5 inches

2023

UV print on reclaimed lithography plate

13 x 24 inches

As above, so below

2023

rust, Arches paper, ashes, Gator Board, bamboo, polyester cord

part of a group show The mystery of things that increase as they perish with Lauren Chipeur, Eli Horn, and Zoe Koke at shedshows in Austin, Texas.