(image portfolio in progress - Out of Place solo exhibition at Women & Their Work, Austin, TX, December 5th, 2026 - January 14, 2027)

Out of Place operates as a shifting memory of landscapes continually altered by human intervention and environmental change. Through fragmented sculptures and photography, it traces the complex entanglements between culture and ecology.

My consideration of nature in relation to the built environment draws from concepts of Post-Naturalism, a perspective that questions the objectification of nature as pristine and separate from humans.

The installation addresses the displacement, destruction, and abandonment of the natural world while pointing to the tensions between environmental costs and conflicting human desires.

I cull and gather mangled metals and plastics from dumps, construction sites, and roadsides during travels across Texas. These remnants are combined with fallen tree parts and photography to form hybrid landscapes. My photographs of landscapes affected by tornadoes, drought, and flooding are printed onto wall-sized paper. The images are collaged into three-dimensional structures and skins that peel away from walls and collapse to the floor.

Severed from their origins, these elements are reassembled into unstable new configurations where distinctions between the natural and the manufactured, the past and the present, the physical and the representation, begin to collapse.

The work serves as fleeting, elegiac monuments to trees, waters, land, and sky. 

As ecosystems degrade and transform, so too do the narratives we construct about them. Out of Place functions as a facsimile, revealing nature as memory—unsettled and continually in flux.

We are both the maker and the made, entrenched in the conditions we create.