Not a Landscape, 2024
Installation including: Ink on paper cards; zine; drawings on sandpaper; custom shelves
Dimensions variable

This body of work uses Suminagashi paper marbling techniques to create images suggestive of aerial landscapes. From the sandstone arches of Southeastern Utah to the White Sands dunes of New Mexico, much of this region was formed and shaped by water. Using Suminagashi, I am interested in what it means to create landscape imagery from a materialist approach by starting with water as primary shaping force. Quoting a range of writers, these pieces cluster together ideas about definition, naming, epistemics, and cultural erasure. This body of work uses a variety of graphic styles, text quotations, and cursive writing to seek out poetic solidarities between critical theory frameworks and spatialized geographies of the American Southwest. The cards were laid out for visitors to intereact with, finding there own connections through sequencing and proximity.

Hanging above the cards were framed drawings on sandpaper, each with the phrase "Remember When." These works obtusely gesture toward vandalism, defacement, and preservation while invoking a nostalgia of past times.