Featured by Create! Magazine
I'm honored that Harbor Remains and Break Water were selected for Time Capsule, an online exhibition presented by Create! Magazine and PxP Contemporary. I'm grateful for the opportunity to share these works alongside artists whose practices continue to push contemporary art in thoughtful and unexpected directions.
Both pieces belong to an ongoing body of work that investigates how landscapes become archives of human activity. Rather than depicting the coast as a place of leisure or nostalgia, I'm interested in what remains after industries shift, shorelines erode, infrastructure fails, and communities adapt. Working waterfronts become records of labor. Weathered objects become evidence. Every scar, stain, and fragment carries information about the people and systems that shaped a place.
The materials themselves are central to that investigation. Salvaged marine objects, archival maps, found wood, painted surfaces, and traces of previous use are brought together not simply as collage, but as artifacts. I want each work to feel as though it has been recovered rather than manufactured—as if it were collected during field research instead of composed entirely within the studio. The process involves layering, obscuring, excavating, and rebuilding until the surface begins to resemble something that has endured both time and environmental pressure.
Harbor Remains examines the coastline as a record of disappearance and persistence. Navigation marks, fragments of marine infrastructure, and weathered surfaces suggest a place that is still functioning while simultaneously bearing the evidence of profound transformation. The work asks viewers to consider what survives after familiar landscapes begin to change, and how those changes become embedded in the physical environment.
Break Water continues that investigation by exploring the structures people construct in an attempt to resist natural forces. Breakwaters, seawalls, docks, and maritime equipment are practical objects, but they also become symbols of our ongoing negotiation with an increasingly uncertain coastline. Rather than presenting these structures as monuments, the work considers them as temporary interventions within much longer environmental timelines.
Together, these works reflect a broader direction in my practice that I describe as Art is Evidence. Whether I'm working along the New England coast, researching inland extraction landscapes, or studying abandoned infrastructure, my goal is to create objects that function as visual documents as much as artworks. They ask not only what a place looks like, but what it reveals about labor, memory, environmental change, and the systems that shape the world around us.
I'm deeply grateful to Create! Magazine and PxP Contemporary for including these works in Time Capsule. Their support helps introduce this evolving body of work to new audiences and encourages the conversations that continue to shape where the research goes next.
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