This collaborative, site-responsive series explores how human divisions of resources, such as water and land, favor human communities over – and often at the irreversible expense of – plant and animal communities. Joan Baron created clay forms in response to the Salt River, which provides much of Phoenix and Tempe's water, while I made cyanotypes on paper and cotton fabric on its banks. By taking impressions of water, power lines, plastics, plants, and earth, I examined the collisions that occur when humans relentlessly take, in order to ask if we really benefit when we make decisions that favor us alone. The cyanotype medium holds latent poetic meaning when turned to these explorations, as it has historically been used both to document the fauna of the natural world and for urban planning. Weaving expresses the entanglement of humans with more-than-humans.
Presented in collaboration with ArtLink's 2023 Art D'Core Gala.
Installation view
confluences ii. Cyanotype on cotton. 8.5x12'. 2023.
confluences ii details.
monsoon season diptych. Cyanotype on paper. 2023.
L to R: seedheads. Cyanotype on paper. 2023; clay objects by Joan Baron; parking lot diptych. Cyanotype on paper. 2023.
L to R: parking lot diptych. Cyanotype on paper. 2023; clay objects by Joan Baron; meditations triptych. Cyanotype on Epson Luster paper. 2023.
Details: parking lot diptych and meditations triptych.
drifting/the hand of the colonizer. Cyanotype on silk. 3x9'. 2023.