land, place, & memory

This body of work explores the relationships between land, identity, and memory. Rooted primarily in the American Southwest - its geology, layered histories, and Indigenous inscriptions - the landscape is never simply a setting. It is an active force that shapes how we belong, how we remember, and how we understand ourselves.

Working across photography, video, installation, appropriation, and custom code, I investigate the ways identity is formed through place. The work considers colonization and displacement, sites of violence that exist alongside narratives of patriotism, and the enduring impulse to leave marks on the world. Petroglyphs, astronomical calendars, digital traces, and algorithmic systems become different expressions of the same desire to record presence across time.

Many of these works begin with sustained attention - to a landscape, an archive, or a digital environment. Others accumulate gestures over time, treating movement itself as a form of inscription. Throughout, memory is understood as layered and unstable, where personal experience, official histories, and the land itself continually shape and reshape one another.

the garden is on fire

trinity

ember/ash: mouseX, mouseY

an act of subversion

english ivy

the desert is no lady

a history with a future, alive in the present

emergency in slow motion

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