I see raindrops and to feel their volume, but in an environment where nothing can grow, the rain lost its value. This composite image captures a study I made to monitor the effects of irreversible damage to fertile soil- similar to the process of desertification. It was an experiment to see if anything could survive in a material unsuitable for most plant life. I would visit the site to look for signs of life and found that while plants were unable to grow in the sand, the middle ring of grass remained healthy.

A tribute to the family farm.

In Distance, I ask the viewer to consider the many microcosms that exist in-between what we get and how we get it. By taking an essential aspect of modern farming, creating a platform for advertisement, and leading with a ripe version of the truth I hope to flatten the many aspects of milk production

Made of conveyor belts and gunny sacks from my family’s farm, Once We Carried weighs the changes in technology, labor, and material used in agricultural production. When I went to the local hardware store to buy more bolts, the owner gave me his last box. He no longer stocked them because the small farms in the area were consolidated into large farms out of town and they bought their supplies elsewhere.

Painted on the side of an old dairy barn, Cow Corn is a fantastical narrative where incestual relationships between cows, corn, and milk create a plant/animal hybrid that feeds and grows itself using common instruments of dairy production. While painting the mural, I serendipitously unearthed hoof prints where years before a cow must have gotten out and stepped through wet concrete.