My work is informed by lived experience of caring for animals and nurtured by continued participation in farm work and animal husbandry. I collaborate with animals, primarily my horse and team of young oxen, to create work. In practice, I address notions of interspecies kinship, multispecies history, and more-than-human collaboration primarily through land art, installation, sound, and social practice. Past works emphasize long-term relationships with animals and places; my current research is ecological in nature and argues that interspecies relationships do create legitimate social communities and should be considered as such in socially engaged art.
My intentions are not to romanticize the past, but to see it as messy and complicated to imagine a future in which all beings are recognized for their contributions to the co-creation of our world.
Formative years spent in barns, riding horses, and at summer-long riding camps compel me towards this work. My practice is an extension of a lifelong multispecies education through farm work, as an equestrian, and through the development of long-term relationships with human, nonhuman collaborators, and place.
My intentions are not to romanticize the past, but to see it as messy and complicated to imagine a future in which all beings are recognized for their contributions to the co-creation of our world.
Formative years spent in barns, riding horses, and at summer-long riding camps compel me towards this work. My practice is an extension of a lifelong multispecies education through farm work, as an equestrian, and through the development of long-term relationships with human, nonhuman collaborators, and place.