Latent Landscape

I set a task to take a new look at south Louisiana landscape. The spaces most powerful were leftover, abandoned and forbidden industrial places, including an old lock, stretches of the levee along the Mississippi River, highway underpasses and chemical, energy and sugar cane processing plants. Working from observational sketches and using local materials such as river mud and plant fibers for papermaking, I made prints on handmade paper, books, and video that bring this latent landscape into view. Images and surfaces become primitive, disorienting, psychological, dark and changing landscapes.

Port Allen Bridge, 2010, Woodcut, Handmade Paper, 8' x 12'

Plaquemine Lock 1, 2011, Woodcut and Handmade Paper, 8' x 12'

Plaquemine Lock 2, 2011, Woodcut, Handmade Paper, 8' x 16'

Cinclaire Study 1, 2011, Handmade Paper, Monotype, Paper Cast Woodcut and Charcoal, 43" x 43"

Cinclaire Study 8, 2011, Cast Paper, Monotype, Woodcut, 36" x 42"

Cinclaire Study 3, 2011, Handmade Paper, Silkscreen, Paper Cast Woodcut, 43" x 31"

Cinclaire Study 2, 2011, Handmade Paper, Woodcut, 36" x 48"

Bayou Plaquemine Bridge 3, 2011, Woodcut, Handmade Paper, Monotype, 54" x 36"

Cinclaire Study 4, 2011, Handmade Paper, Charcoal Cast Woodcut, Charcoal, 46" x 31"

Cinclaire Study 5, 2011, Handmade Paper, Charcoal Cast Woodcut, Charcoal, 46" x 31"

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