Sometimes Still Life

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Sometimes Still Life explores environmental patterns, both aesthetic and seasonal, while making visual associations to the body. Through the use of various mediums like drawing, photography, stone lithography and sculpture-installation, these works depict interpretations of the body and landscape, referencing the liminality of a “super bloom.”

A super bloom is a phenomenon where indigenous wildflowers exceed a typical seasonal bloom in their abundance. It is a rare event where floral seeds lay dormant for years until particular conditions are met. Unique in profusion and timing, this botanical occurrence relies on the fragile and balanced patterning of ecological conditions to take place. The imagery represented in this body of work was documented in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park during one of these events.

These artworks are visual meditations of navigating and searching the terrain. They are representations of the physical relationship to the landscape and metaphors of a moment that is “sometimes still” — yet passes before our very eyes.