M.O.

My growing body of work focuses on the land and how humans use, abuse, and traverse it. I am interested in geology and the relationship humans have with the land that has been carved, weathered, subducted and uplifted over millions of years. 

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Dust covered roads weaving through the desert, telephone poles dotting otherwise pristine hills-- the mark of humankind reaches far throughout the natural world. We use the land to our advantage but at our own risk--  nestling subdivisions in fire-prone canyons and mining deep for energy sources in areas completely unfit for human habitation, clearing forests in favor of crop land and draining reservoirs to power distant metropolises. 

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I aim to capture the effect of time on landscape especially in comparison to the blip of human activities that dot it. I seek to showcase the fragility not only of the land, but of the civilization on top of it.