Work
Interdisciplinary visual art, pigment practice, painting, and poetry, 2013–ongoing
Practice timeline — click any row to expand
Primary project
Memory of a Larger Mind
2019 - ongoing
A decade-long interdisciplinary project transforming memories at sites of genocide and ecocide through pigments, poetry, installations, and community events.
Companion project
Palettes of Place
2017 - ongoing
Pigments foraged from specific sites — concentrating and preserving place-based memory as color.
Part of Memory of a Larger Mind
Memory Lake
2024 - 2025
A site-specific installation refilling a disappeared Portland wetland, drop by drop.
Part of Memory of a Larger Mind
Light / Remains
2020 - 2022
Cyanotypes made with sunlight, found objects, and inherited memory. Part of a forthcoming book.
Completed 2025
New Earth
2017 - 2025
Abstract paintings traced from NASA satellite images of glacier retreat, made with pigments foraged from those same glaciers.
Part of Memory of a Larger Mind
echo)zero(stone
2022 - 2024
Circular forms made of stones, flowers, and wild waters — ecosystems linked, zeros opened, homeward gestures cast backward and forward in time.
Completed 2022
Desire Lines
2019 - 2022
Paintings following the desire of materials — bone, egg, water, flower — to find each other, tracing the diasporic pull toward connection.
Completed 2020
Actant
2013 - 2020
Paintings exploring pigment, color, and flowers as actants — forces that act upon and reshape the world, just as a mineral, a carrot, or a human body does.
Part of Memory of a Larger Mind
Hells Canyon / Snake River
2024 - 2025
Paintings made with Hells Canyon wildflowers, weeds, rocks, and Snake River water — an inquiry into the deepest gorge in North America and its overlapping histories of Indigenous dispossession, racial violence, and ecological collapse.
Completed 2014
Words in Place
2013 - 2014
A collaborative project with poets putting poems into public space.