Disturbance Ecologies, reflects upon the possibility of living cooperatively towards partial recuperation in the wake of a human disturbed world. A disturbance marks simultaneously a problem, an end, and a beginning of something new. Places marked by human disturbance have struggled and responded with real world examples consisting of new mineral classifications, plastic eating fungi, and the barbed wire notion of private property. In this exhibition’s hypothetical landscape, serpents from Latin-American myth observe actions in the present from a subterranean spiritual realm, seed skeletons are the dead holding the living protected by sharp leaves formed from beer cans, citrine, fools gold, and corals wrap themselves around and amongst bricks, cinder blocks, and broken technology. The negotiation of the natural and artificial have formed a quiet commons at which we can water or waste, calling upon us to tend to a troubled present.

Installed at Antenna Gallery. New Orleans, LA. 2023.