My work explores found patterns within the more-than-human world. This particular series of works engages with the markings of the emerald ash borer (EAB), an invasive species of beetle, as "material-semiotic nodes or knots in which diverse bodies and meaning coshape one another'' (Donna Haraway, When Species Meet). Using the EAB's biosemiotic tree markings or glyphs as my primary text, these works offer retranslations through different mediums—aquatints, paintings, and sound—that explore the interrelationality of human and more-than-human worlds within the Anthropocene. This work also explores found patterns or digital fossils within surveillance Google Street View (GSV) imagery and GIS technology (Google Earth) as a form of biosemiosis through which to view our relationship to non-human animals.
Haraway, Donna J. When Species Meet. Minneapolis, University Press of Minnesota, 2008. Kindle Edition.
deer in headlights, 2019
30" x 20"
digital archival inkjet print
Install view of deer in headlights.
Install view of Louisville Slugger Ash Baseball Bat with EAB Markings, tree scroll with beetle glyphs, I want it that way, and beetle glyph I-V.
tree scroll with beetle glyphs, 2020
oil and ink on linen
87" x 31"
Sound piece by Elizabeth LoPiccolo (@elizabethlopiccolo)
Louisville Slugger Ash Baseball Bat with EAB Markings, 2021
36” x 3” x 3”
Install view of Louisville Slugger Ash Baseball Bat with EAB Markings.
I want it that way, 2020
(Cigarette cards explorers from top row left to right: Duke of Abruzzi, David Livingstone, Admiral W.S. Schley, Sir John Franklin, Lieut. E.H. Shackleton, C.E. Borchgrevink, GEO. W. De Long, Sven Hedin, Henry M. Stanley, Admiral Geo W. Melville, S.A Andree, Adolphus W. Greely, Miss Annie S. Peck, Mathew A Henson, Robert Peary, Anthony Fiala, James Cooke, David L. Brainard, Frederick Cook, Fridtjof Nansen)
60" x 53"
Inkjet paper transfers and ink on canvas
Install view of tree scroll with beetle glyphs, I want it that way, and beetle glyph I-V.
beetle glyph I-V, 2020 (install view)
12" x 18"
copper intaglio aquatint on bfk rives paper with raw ash wood frame
Install view of tree scroll with beetle glyphs, I want it that way, and beetle glyph I-V.
Video installation : behavioral surveillance ,2020
behavioral surveillance ,2020
video 2:05 mins (looped) with sound
In 1942 security cameras were invented and in 1958 the first satellite was launched, less than 100 years of being surveilled yet we have become habituated to it entirely.
Still from performance bug-out-bag, 2020
Before the pandemic hit NY in March 2020 there was a heightened awareness around it. The fear and the desire to let an apocalyptic mentality take over was thriving within. This performance piece is a reflection of that moment.