This installation is an attempt to represent a complex interplay of intertwining and sometimes conflicting meanings. In one image, a faint, partly erased figure not only connects with the earth but seems to merge with it, disappearing into the landscape. Hands pinch weeds plucked from the ground, a nod to the dual human tendencies of creation and destruction as we shape our world using life forms and minerals extracted from our surroundings.

The images are also an attempt to represent a feminine human form and psyche spiritually entwined with wild spaces, using partial invisibility to defy cultural pressures attempting to exert control over the natural world and gendered identities. In this way, the artworks can be understood to hover between livable futures and gradual erasure, highlighting the numerous contradictions that permeate our discordant present.

Both works were created during a period of engagement with the Intermission Museum of Art’s works in progress: volume iii.