"Grain of the Earth"
This is work on exhibition in Borderlines [Movement], on view June 4 – July 28, 2025, at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Spanning twenty-five feet in length, this work combines labor-intensive traditional craft with ephemeral media to explore fragility, memory, and landscape. The surface is composed of rice paper panels, delicately sewn together by hand, and screenprinted with abstract cartographic symbols, spectral forms, and layered textures. These symbols, referencing flight paths, geologic mapping, and coded communication are intentionally fragmented, referencing both the accumulation and disintegration of meaning over time.
Accompanying the physical piece is a video projection filmed at White Sands National Park, in New Mexico where the work was temporarily installed in the open desert. In this setting, the paper structure interacts with wind and light, mirroring the shifting nature of dunes and perception itself. The video captures moments of stillness and collapse, emphasizing the ephemeral relationship between body, material, and place.
By combining handmade and mechanical processes, and situating the work in both gallery and landscape, an exploration of memory and environment imprint on one another.