My work employs scientific tropes to incite curiosity about ecological phenomena. I am interested in poetically articulating the incongruities between our current economic growth paradigm (conceptually unlimited) and our emerging notion of sustainability (limited by finite resources).
I try to capture the visual language of embodied form moving through cycles of destruction and creation within a finite landscape. I am curious how ideas are conserved, mutated, transmitted, or lost in time by the molecular play of our shared materiality. I create experiences for viewers to observe and reflect on biophysical transitions as finite materials cycle between a figure and its field.
I am fundamentally interested in how we might conceive of an ecological rationality by reflecting on the co-evolution of a culture and its supporting ecosystem.
Dr. Ed Salpeter (Physics Department, Emeritus) standing with his own graph of the frequency of supernova's that are responsible for the heavy elements of the periodic table.
