Land, Sea & Air

These images are assembled from archival, scientific, and vernacular sources describing systems built to measure, predict, and contain the world. Through layering and obstruction, the work traces how such systems manage uncertainty, omission, and excess.

In November 1982, Exxon Research and Engineering circulated an internal report summarizing decades of climate research conducted in collaboration with external scientists, universities, and government-funded institutions. The document acknowledged the warming effects of CO₂ emissions and the role of fossil fuels in climate change, drawing on scientific models and data produced outside the company.

This internally circulated and restricted document forms the conceptual foundation of Land, Sea, & Air. Fragments of its language and diagrams are embedded within each composition, situating archival photographs within a moment when the environmental consequences of fossil fuel extraction were already known, measured, and visualized.

The photographs depict sites where industrial, military, and civilian systems intersect, including ports, training grounds, logistical corridors, borders, and zones of extraction. Rather than illustrating specific events, the images emphasize infrastructure as a means of control, revealing how power operates through planning, risk management, and the normalization of long-term consequence.

The images are constructed using in-camera and on-film masking techniques that obscure and reveal visual information through layered exposures and blocked fields of light. This process reflects how photographic images, technical diagrams, and corporate language have been used to shape perception by controlling what is made visible and what is withheld.

By combining photographic images with archival corporate language, Land, Sea, & Air situates environmental knowledge within operational systems designed to regulate risk, responsibility, and long-term consequence.