My site-specific objects and installations are a consideration of nature in relation to the built environment and embody concepts of Post-Naturalism — a perspective that questions the objectification of nature as pristine and separate from humans. Just as nature is transformed by industry, the installations evolve as renditions of environmental stories, histories, and constructed narratives.

Utilizing salvaged metals, tree parts, and photography as physical structures, I create new fictions that acknowledge their own construction.

I collect mangled steel, plastics, and salvaged architectural parts along with tree roots, bark and branches during West Texas day trips and from neighboring streets and scrap yards. I also document downed trees after storms and the aftermath of demolished buildings. I print the images on wall-sized sheets of aluminum, film, and paper which I then cut, heat, and reconstruct into façades—pictures of nature peeling away from the walls and floor. The installations are informed by fragmented memories of land and place and serve as an invitation to question perceptions.

The use of salvaged materials and photography as structural elements grew out of a moment in 2023 when I happened upon an active demolition site. Suggestive of a war zone crossed with an amusement park, the scene was both horrific and beautiful. The poetic elegance of the mangled steel and the relentless destruction of the buildings was unexpected and mesmerizing. That encounter sharpened my awareness of the land’s ravages and the inextricable entanglement of nature and industrialization. I photographed the site and collected debris - processes and materials that have since become integral to my work.

The installations function as facsimiles of nature, where the distinction between reality and representation erodes over time, and the veil between other and self, out-there and in-here, continually thins.

Adventures in Plunderland serves to reveal myriad ways humans affect the land and recognizes that culture and technology are intricately intertwined — a dynamic, ever-evolving system.