"We need to find our way back to the world of living things, where we can be drawn into their mystery and power. " Robin Wall Kimmerer

The N22 series uses well clay extracted from Santa Monica well N22 to create an earthen core sample (N22), impressions of archival images of well sites and rubbings of water infrastructure. The series uses the earth that supports the infrastructure to depict the infrastructures itself in attempts to reearth contemporary systems that move us ever-farther from the life-sustainaing properties of natural systems.

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"We need to find our way back to the world of living things, where we can be drawn into their mystery and power. "
Robin Wall Kimmerer

The N22 series uses well clay extracted from Santa Monica well N22 to create an earthen core sample (N22), impressions of archival images of well sites and rubbings of water infrastructure. The series uses the earth that supports the infrastructure to depict the infrastructures itself in attempts to reearth contemporary systems that move us ever-farther from the life-sustainaing properties of natural systems.

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"We need to find our way back to the world of living things, where we can be drawn into their mystery and power. " Robin Wall Kimmerer

The N22 series uses well clay extracted from Santa Monica well N22 to create an earthen core sample (N22), impressions of archival images of well sites and rubbings of water infrastructure. The series uses the earth that supports the infrastructure to depict the infrastructures itself in attempts to reearth contemporary systems that move us ever-farther from the life-sustainaing properties of natural systems.

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"We need to find our way back to the world of living things, where we can be drawn into their mystery and power. " Robin Wall Kimmerer

The N22 series uses well clay extracted from Santa Monica well N22 to create an earthen core sample (N22), impressions of archival images of well sites and rubbings of water infrastructure. The series uses the earth that supports the infrastructure to depict the infrastructures itself in attempts to reearth contemporary systems that move us ever-farther from the life-sustainaing properties of natural systems.

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Inspired by Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us, this interdisciplinary series engages drawing, sculpture, and installation to examine the ocean as both material system and cultural imaginary. Utilizing marbled unglazed clay, brass, steel, graphite, wax, mirror and wood, the works foreground processes of sedimentation, geological time and tension between the natural and built environment. Individually and collectively, the works evoke the complex beauty, slow violence, and reciprocal entanglements that surface as urban and ecological systems inform one another. Each title is sourced from Carson’s 1951 text, positioning the series in dialogue with a lineage of ecological scholarship.

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