Periodic Table of Land Art Elements (2026 – present)
Cob Sculptures (2025 – present)
Material Conversations (2025 – present)
If every atom is conscious, as the Theory of Mind Everywhere postulates, then it follows that the materials we use to make art also have their own consciousness. What kind of conversations might be had by letting the materials of the forest speak?
- charcoal
- soil
- lake pigments
Imagination as a Sensory Organ (Southern Appalachians, 2018 – present)
Consciousness surrounds us, from the level of molecule to cell to organ to ecosystem, all different individual consciousnesses. This series documents my exploration of this lichen informed hypothesis through drawings, paintings, photographs, and creative writing.
- Emergence paintings, Haematomma, Megalospora, Apothecial Sun
Growing Food (2008 – present)
Overlooked Places (Intermountain West, 2010 – 2018)
Places that are like the lichens I study: unnamed, overlooked, and alive. Washington State’s Channeled Scablands. Idaho’s Inland Temperate Rainforest. Nevada’s Great Basin and Mojave Deserts. The Delmarva Peninsula. Although my artistic practice was scientific at the time, documentation included videos, drawings, paintings, and photographs.
- drawings?
- photographs?
Finding Other Ways (Southern Appalachians & Pacific Northwest, 2006 – 2010)
There’s gotta be a way to live without suckling from the tits of the corporatist beast. Two friends and I spent four years finding other ways. Foraging food from dumpsters and wild foods from the forest. Train hopping and hitchhiking. Living a life that fits into a backpack. A tarp. A cast iron pan. A lighter. No propane. No headlamps. No electricity. No plumbing. 50 lbs of field guides. 3 friends. 2 dogs. Giardia as an experiment in symbiosis. A year in the Southern Appalachian National Forests. Two years in a 150 sq foot shack in the Selkirk Mountains, ID.
- Artistic research documentation in videos, drawings, and photographs;
Narrative Exploration (Chicago, IL, 2001 – 2006)
Stories can box us in. But stories can also cut windows and doorways out of those boxes.
- Two Chapters of Carlos Collodi’s Adventures of Pinnochio (Video Installation; Version Fest Chicago, 2006)
- Dreadnought & Lele