emerging:
Ecological Translator
Critical Ecology Researcher
Crip Punk/Mad Crip
Experiential Photographer
cv bio inquiries/contact ︎ Prints for Palestine
service offerings--in process
portfolio
earth imprints earth walkers hyperlandscapes
land/sea/sky/humxn This Sacred Withering
fieldnotes of a transitioning earth
wavelines, waverubbings, and keepers of time
illustrative photography and design
systems design and science communication
ephemeral and organic sculpture, material, and performance investigations
regenerative mushroom test garden (in process)
1.2/1.5/4.0: In the Year 2022 (in process)
future projections
I deeply and gratefully acknowledge the many different tribes whose lands I’ve walked, created, studied, and researched upon.
I am currently on the lands of the Multnomah, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Clackamas, Stl’pulmsh, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Nations.--> https://native-land.ca/
Ecological Translator:
(1) Ecology Based Artist
(2) Ecological researcher using qualitative, quantatative, and creative research modalities
(2) Science Communicator
(3) One who is involved in becoming fluent in the languges of Ecological Art and Ecology
(4) One who centers the voice of the More-Than-Humxn World while looking to Sacred Ecology and Decolonial Praxis as a guides and teachers; also centers Indigenous, BIPOC, and other communities most impacted by white supremacist driven ecological violence
(4) (a): Western Science language and praxis surrounding ecological violence are grappled with in order to create a tactile, emotional, and visual experice that seeks to work as an accomplice in removing racist/colonial language and barriers from building connection with our Earth and support oppressed and explotied communities
(5) One engaged in ecological and systemic healing
(a) as experienced through mental, spiritual, social, and bodily injury
Works in process 2025:
On Gaza:
Multiexposure works created remotely between Mohannad Derdesawi and Renn Simmons, Gaza coastline
Fractured: Palm Lines/Wavelines/Missile Lines
experiential hand drawn animations of palm lines of Palestinians in Gaza, missile lines left in the sky by occupational violence, and the coast line of Gaza from October 2023 to Present. Exploring the intimacy and dehmunanization of Palestinians in Gaza, Ecocide, the imperial military industrial complex
For Gaza Project:
Projects between children in Rafah, Gaza and Interntaional Artists
France:
Fast/Slow, digital photography and research on Fast and Slow Climate and Ecological Violence
themes:
slow violence as privilege within a definition
fast violence as experienced through Gaza
genocide and ecocide as alternate far away realities by the Global North, as material for exploration and theory but not lived experience
Oregon:
Earth Walkers, Land Haunting:
Cop City, WA
Intel Deforestation of Forest Park
Sites of Complicity:
Ephemeral Sculpture Installations/Disruptions in Portland, Oregon at sites that fund genocide in Palestine
Experiential Research and Photographic Work
Climate Archive
Self
Degeneration:
beginning the process of self documentation of the degeneration of my legs and calves as caused by Hereditary Neuropathy
Sketches:
travel sketch archive
grief and horror:
what do I even have to say after a year of genocide? what do I have to say within whiteness as a complicit settler living on Turtle Island? sketches and other disjointed work emerging from deep disassociation and grief
they settled:
following the path and settlements of my ancestors who traveled on the oregon trail, making work with the land they were complicit in stealing
saneism
experiential self portraits highlighting degneration through mental health deterioration
themes:
the expectations of capitalism to maintain
earth imprints
How can we allow the Earth to speak to the humxn world through regnerative cameraless photographic practices?
Explorations using Cyanotypes, Anthotypes, Phytograms, and other organic experiential photography methods.
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earth walkers
Ephemeral Sculptures exploring themes of the idyllic pastoral, clear-cutting, colonization, so called invasive species, and the death/regneration cycles of the More-Than-Humxn world.
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hyperlandscapes
impressionist photographic landscapes
The term “hyperlandscapes” references Rob Nixon’s ecological theory of the “Hyper Object,” which expresses ecological issues like Climate Change that are too large to grasp, but must be grappled with regardless.
These images allow for Sacred Ecological contemplation, news ways of seeing, and communication between landscapes, space, and time.
2017-2022
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impressionist photographic landscapes
The term “hyperlandscapes” references Rob Nixon’s ecological theory of the “Hyper Object,” which expresses ecological issues like Climate Change that are too large to grasp, but must be grappled with regardless.
These images allow for Sacred Ecological contemplation, news ways of seeing, and communication between landscapes, space, and time.
2017-2022
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field notes of a transtioning earth
---On Going, IN PROCESS--
Direct Cameraless Photographic Translations of Bodies of Water and the More-Than-Humxn World documenting our rapidly shifting planet
Ireland, Sweden 2022-2023
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ephemeral and organic sculpture, material, and performance investigations
Organic, Ephemeral, and Ecological Violence Explorations within the humxn/Natural world
Oregon, Sweden, Ireland, France
2021-2022
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This Sacred Withering
Pacific Northwest College of Art BFA Thesis project, 2022
An exploration of Climate Grief and Mourning using a variety of experiential mediums and creative research.
2022
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illustrative photography and graphic design
2021
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systems design and science communication graphics
2021
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wavelines and keepers of time
wave and water lines taken from around the world capturing documenting sealevels in the 2020s
35mm analog photos developed with seaweed developer, and digital images
2021-2023
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