21C Bentonville October 2024-April 2025

My work is a combination of printed matter, collaborative publication, community projects, and alternative processes that examine our relationship to nature: nature as armor, nature as sanctuary, and the intersection between the imaginary and the concrete. Deep ecology and the theory of indistinguishability and glitch as a mode of disruption inform my conceptual and material explorations. Being present in nature is an essential part of my studio practice where I recharge, observe, document, and collect. My current archive from these excursions contains more than 12,000 artifacts and includes photographs, drawings, handwritten notes, and found objects. I deconstruct, alter, and collage elements of the archive to create the imagery present in my prints and publications.

Theory of indistinguishability concerns itself with the removal of barriers between the self and the other. I approach Indistinguishability through the merging of my body with nature. This is present in printed works such as Self Portrait (2022) and I’m in a Symbiotic Relationship With My Garden, where patches of lettuce grow out of my body and eyes. Lettuce is specifically used because historically it was thought to be a medicinal herb and alludes to ongoing themes of recovery, resilience, and metamorphosis.

The Terrarium exhibition in particular further explores these ideas as well as themes of protection, the stillness associated with isolation, and the feeling of living inside a fish bowl. Terrariums are typically created inside glass containers holding soil and plants in an environment protected from the outside world. In this work, my themes of indistinguishability and self narrative are sealed off within the glass vitrine, denying the viewer closer access to the work. A fluorescent glow surrounds the exhibition as paper leaves are frozen in a state of falling; creating an eerie stillness within the exhibition.

1. Self Portrait (2022), 6 Layer Full Bleed Linocut Reduction Print, 2022
2. Off the Path, Collage of Risograph of Lithograph Prints, 2022
3. Entangled, Collage of Laser-cut Paper, & Risograph Prints, 2023
4. From a Small World, Cut Risograph Print, 2023,
5. Climbing Tree, Risograph, Screenprint, Intaglio Collagraph, Wire, & Branches, 2024
6. I’m in a Symbiotic Relationship with my Garden, 5 layer Woodblock Print, 2020
   
   Other elements:
   Leaves: Risograph & Screenprints
   Background: Risograph Prints

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