I AM A COUNTRY MADE OF CHANGING PLACES


This series of contingent sculptures and images explores boundaries - how they impact our lives, how we move in/through the world, how we value a location, how places fill with memory, longing, and desire.


Each work moves through differing generations moving forward in time to present day. I imagine how circumstances may have been and contrast that with how they are today. Through material, form, surface, scale, color, and title I explore land-use as pendulum acting as a barometer for public opinion, political policies, community and environmental health.


This work is possible in part through the generosity of the Douglas County Cultural Coalition.

I am not my great grandfather's forest
2016
laser cut plywood, reclaimed plywood, flocking, enamel, liquid gold leaf, hardware
5'6" x 4' x 6'6"
I am not my grandmother's flower garden
2017
archival pigment print on paper and gold leaf on paper
24" x 20" each image
I am not my mother's suburbia
2017
freeze dried flowers, flagging tape, tape
dimensions variable
I am my own acreage
2017
artist designed wallpaper, and gold leaf on paper
wallpaper dimensions: 20' x8'; image dimensions: 16" x 16" each
I am my own acreage (detail)
I am not my child's countryside
2017
paper, paint, glitter
10' x 6' x 6'