My work describes a disconnection between our built and wild landscapes. A disconnection between ourselves and our place. Interrupted by a digital worldview that is individually unsustainable and collectively viral.
It is about action and labor, energy source and energy exhaustion. I find clarity in the manic activity of an art practice and am grounded by the physical intellectualization of labor, material, and creative research.
I objectify the landscape as a way to show reverence for our forever old relationship. I celebrate it with gratitude, melancholy, and joy. These sculptures, reference volunteerism as inevitable growth, volume as history, shape as behavior, and plant as object.
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