The portfolios presented here explore how we experience and understand the natural landscape in a time some have described as “post-nature”.

 

The focus is on the upper Midwest, my home and place I know best. In different ways, each project considers how people and nature are connected, and what that looks like.

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Driftless River is a portrait of the lower Wisconsin as it flows through the Driftless Area between Prairie du Sac and the Mississippi River.

 

Spirituality and Place looks at spaces that serve as symbols of, or portals to, deep connection to place, or even sacred experience. The project can be seen in its entirety here.

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The views in Ukiyo-e Wingra, which were made at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum and adjacent Wingra woods, are inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e tradition. Prairie is a selection of photos about the evolution of a suburban back yard into a small prairie during the 18 years I lived with it. Positive Negative brings specimens from that prairie into the studio to examine their sculptural qualities and the tensions and synergies of opposites.

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My current work extends the subject of Driftless River to its wider watershed, including the Kickapoo Valley and the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant, parts of which are being restored as a natural recreation area and prairie.

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