IMAGINARY FORESTS
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American black cherry, 2022
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what we lose is all around us, 2021
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unlanding, 2022
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a tuning, 2022
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critical night length, 2022
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Unsettling the Gravity of Assumptions, 2021
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nocturne, 2021-22
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Where We Live, 2021
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a fugitive form of fiction, 2021
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lithium grove, 2022
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lair (for Martha and friends), 2022
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here, 2022
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these birds knew no rest, 2022
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mangrove, carbon, chromium, 2022
This body of work contemplates forests as places where questions of bio-diversity, survival, indigenous struggle and non-human agency are playing out. Through the process of calling in forests- both real and imagined, visions of future ecologies connect with histories of colonization and the lush internal spaces of desire, longing and the imagination. The paintings are composed with saturated pigment and sari cloth, which is printed with abstract patterns created from digital images of demonstrations for civil and environmental rights.