I reexamine knowledges and ecologies as both artist and scholar. My creative practice encompasses multi-media installations, collaboration, curatorial projects, and creative and academic writing. My artistic work often creates spaces of physical and conceptual fracture—where a fictional space spills into a real landscape, a digital model becomes a phenomenological experience, or an inequity in a known truth becomes visible. I am interested in the disorientation created by these moments of slippage where perspective, scale, and time are skewed. This space produces a rich ground from which to re-learn histories and re-imagine futures. 

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I am interested in the hubris of our current cultural truths and our ability to produce new mythologies that hold cultural power—these result both in new archives and new memories. These new myths propose solutions that embody both science and mythology, adventure and ritual, raw data and human emotion—solutions that resist dichotomy, the modern/non-modern binary, and coloniality of gender, ecology and knowledge. Each of my projects facilitate understanding of ecological systems and to contribute to the production of new environmental knowledges and thereby cultural truths. My creative process is inspired by my background in environmental field work that relies directly on embodied experience.

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We have studied the surface of Mars and identified geographies that are ‘viable’ for human survival based on the presence of ROI’s (resources of interest) detected by satellites as part of NASA’s CRISM mission. NASA has identified a number of these sites, called HEZs (Human Exploration Zones), as locations for the first human exploration of Mars. Yet the Martian landscape remains extreme and inhospitable to the human body. The images in the HEZs series depict models of three of these sites: Aram Chaos, Melas Chasma, and Gale Crater. They are extracted from satellite imagery and highlight our inability to fully understand that which we cannot experience phenomenologically. They resemble familiar landscape images of mountains and terrain, yet they remain alien, distant models. HEZs juxtapose the plight of human suffering on Earth against the absurdity of future space exploration, current environmental challenges against the realities of the barren Martian landscape, and ultimately desire and fantasy against scientific truth.