rewilding
Most works in this series have been completed in the past year since Covid-19 started affecting communities in Kansas, and limiting travel and gathering. Although I feel forever loyal to the ecosystem that drives my work, I notice a new kind of abstraction presenting itself in works made at the start of the pandemic lockdown. Synthetic colors and plastic surfaces. Unnatural shapes. Foreign objects? Repetitive marks that I’ve used in the past to signify small organisms making sweeping changes to their landscape might suggest something else today. Despite some of these aesthetic departures, my work remains devoted to the tallgrass prairie and re-presenting it through an ever-growing library of lived experience.