Title: Resolv, 2025-2026 (Installation Art)

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My recent installation Resolv embodies this approach. Built from stone, soil, plants, and planetary alignment, it functions less as a sculpture than as a perceptual instrument — a garden that keeps multiple times at once: solar time, fungal time, insect time, human time. The work is shaped slowly through physical labor, negotiation with terrain, and attention to seasonal cycles. Visitors enter a circle, but the forest enters continuously. The piece is not a diagram of the cosmos; it is a space where cosmology can be felt through material presence.

Interconnectedness is at the heart of my art practice. Engaging with animals, landscapes, trees, roots, fungi and ecosystems that I encounter and examine to better understand the entangledment between species. My art practice also looks closely at environmental changes between natural resources and industry. I primarily use photography, video and installation art to convey the deep and intrinsic ties between humans and other living beings and landscapes that capture unseen mysteries. My goal at the Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) is to create a visual entry point for people to approach the sciences, natural environments and visual art through a visceral, emotional experience.

Title: Resolv 2025-2026