strata

These pieces reflect an interest in concepts of layering, stratigraphy, time, directionality, perception and our relationship to nature.

Hang Down Your Head and Cry

65”x45”

Paper, graphite, hair, wood, and magnets

The strips of paper follow the rhythm of the past 20 major exinctions over the course of the last 400 million years.

The length of the piece reflects the artist’s height.

The phrase “HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD AND CRY” is woven with the artist’s post-partem hair, referencing the murder ballad, Tom Dooley.

Song of Time

65”x20”

Paper, Graphite, Wood

This piece is comprised of two drawings spliced together, one of the night sky as it appeared in my Oklahoma backyard in July 2024 and the other of a photo my mother sent with a ruler measuring a decaying stump from a tree I grew with in my childhood backyard in Georgia.

The height of the strips of wood supporting the drawings reflects the pitches of the song of the thirteen year cicada, Magicicada tredecim, alternated with the relative increases in surface temperatures of the Southeastern United States over the last 200 years.

Visitors were asked to write a date that was important to them and place them into the holes, embedding their own experience into the piece.

The pattern of the holes reflects the musical notation for the Song of Time, as played in the videogame Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Mining

40”x60”

Graphite on paper, curved wooden supports

Here, layers of an old stump from my Oklahoma backyard are extended out, with tactile drawings of fossils spread throughout the drawing, and parasitic wasps mining the layers.