This body of work explores how places become meaningful, using the American Southwest as my primary site of inquiry. While much of the work is rooted in this region, my interest is less in depicting a particular landscape - no matter how compelling - than in understanding how places become layered with memory, mythology, politics, and lived experience.

The American Southwest occupies a complex position in our collective imagination. It is also a landscape I have returned to for years, drawn by its light, color, and open, meditative expanses. Yet beneath that familiarity lie histories of extraction, environmental precarity, military infrastructure, and competing claims of belonging. The land is not a passive backdrop but an active witness, carrying ecological, Indigenous, political, and personal histories that continually overlap, challenge, and rewrite one another.

Working across still and moving image, installation, appropriation, code, and poetic forms, I investigate the histories, systems, and traces embedded within place - asking how invisible forces become visible and leave marks upon the landscape, and upon us. Images, archives, lived experience, and acts of inscription all shape how we come to know a place, while revealing memory itself as partial, layered, and contested.

Ultimately, these works are less concerned with representing the Southwest than with exploring how places shape us, how we shape them in return, and how both continue to change across personal, cultural, and geological time.