This work explores the intertwined relationships within my local ecology and aims to understand my evolving iterations of “home.” I create large scale, installation based, hybrid prints with a focus on the pace of time, manufactured impermanence and the setting of home in both my domestic and public environment. Dominant influences are the industry around me, and their use of naturally sourced materials: metal, concrete, brick, vines, weeds, and native foliage. I use elements of decay, represented by rusted and patinated structures, to demonstrate the power of nature and its cyclic properties returning these man-made structures to their original roots. Textile structures, highlighting a sense of home, add fluidity and comfort to the work. 

I reflect heavily on the print process and allow print to serve as a collaboration between myself and nature. The surface of each plate creates a new landscape and each print holds onto the memories of the landscape, serving as an iteration of the memories our ecology holds from our footprint. This work is speaking to how we create habitable spaces and what those spaces turn into after we are gone. The subjects of this work pull from my personal ecology struggles, managing a world that is no longer natural and exploring the fluidity of our relationship with local ecology.