Climate change and the exploitation of nature continuously reshape our landscape. As a result, native, introduced, and domesticated species navigate unstable environments. We, as adults, use technology to mitigate the instability of the spaces where children play and learn to become the future stewards of these environments.
Our obsession with technology fragments time and space. The flattened dimensions of the screen shape cultural aesthetics and influence our perception of the physical world. In my work, engineered physical spaces and flattened digital images form hybrid landscapes. Young people navigate these inherited landscapes with little guidance. They are observers, victims, and rulers of these hybrid worlds.
My drawings and paintings document climate change weather events or ecological disasters. I place dislocated children and animals in these scenarios; a reflection of the isolation so many earthlings experience in an unstable world.