Invasive Species

Invasive Species considers humans and the landscape, particularly in this time of climate crisis. Combining historic and contemporary processes I create dystopic landscapes, underground networks, fictitious plant species, and super-species.

Invasive Species

The world is out of balance. Invasive Species considers humans and the landscape, particularly in this time of climate crisis. Combining historic and contemporary processes I create dystopic landscapes, underground networks, fictitious plant species, and super-species. The project consists of three modes of photographic image-making: rephotographed collaged assemblages, unique cameraless phytolumens, and a combination of the two.

I am interested the relationship between photography and history, and how both are often perceived as the truth, despite their inherent subjectivity. In the rephotographed assembages, I use collage and the juxtaposition of imagery as a reminder that varied stories can be told from the same set of facts.

For the cameraless phytolumen process, I forage plants (including local invasive species) to create a photographic developer made from the plants themselves. I also collect trash and lost objects, and soak both the refuse and the plants in the developer before creating contact prints from the soaked objects on analog photographic paper. The process creates unexpected results through chemical reactions between them.