Thirteen Hours to Fall (work-in-progress)

Thirteen Hours to Fall examines the climate crisis through investigations of contemporary and future littoral zones on the mid-Atlantic coast. With careful consideration of materials, process, form, and content, this project includes photographic sculptures, large-format photographs, collages, video and soundscapes, and salted paper prints created with brackish water collected in the swamps of the growing ghost forest. Colonial timber industries, plantation farming, and climate change have extensively altered this region. These visual investigations ask viewers to consider how colonial capitalists, the ensuing extraction economy, and rising sea levels have dramatically changed this landscape over the last 400 years. This interdisciplinary and intersectional project is informed by environmental history, land management, geography, hydrology, and maritime traditions including mapping and way-finding. Results of this shifting landscape include massive tree deaths, diminished carbon storage and biodiversity, and critical impacts on local communities.

*Funded in part by an Artist Grant from the Puffin Foundation