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Migrant
Migrant
assemblage of paper, birch bark, and found book
11 1/4 x 14 1/8 x 5 1/4
2025

My visual language emerges from the intersection of art and natural history, drawing on the heightened drama of art history to explore how we understand and narrate our relationship with the natural world.
I’m drawn to the story held within fragments—the possibility that meaning can be shaped through what remains. In Migrant, hand-written text banners are sourced from a bird guide, where comments reflect a birder’s personal observations. In this context, “residency” depends on the birder’s geographic standpoint. But for birds, such borders are irrelevant. Today, the same designations of “resident” and “migrant” are used to categorize people, with consequences that reach far beyond a birder’s life list.