I am an artist working in installation, sound, and functional pottery from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I look at places where the built environment meets ecological systems. Of course, this happens everywhere: buildings are weathered by rain, tree roots crack pavement, rivers power dams and so on. These interactions happen at boundaries often maintained by oppositions like rural and urban, new and old, clean and messy, wild and domestic. Such boundaries make it harder to see this in-between space that doesn’t fit well on either side and in which (I would say) we all actually live. My work creates representations of different relationships to place which point to this in-between of the environmental and the cultural.
