A Place To Land, This Place Will Be Water, and Stewardship
These works were installed together in an effort to think through climate change, flooding, the memory of water, and our relationship to land. In A Place To Land, cardboard houses partially submerged in barrels of water with live moss wicking water to the rooftops came as an answer to the flooding in Oklahoma in the summer of 2019. This Place Will Be Water is made of more cardboard houses; models of homes that the artist herself has lived in over the years. They are elevated on cement blocks and construction materials in scale with their specific locations’ elevations above sea level, and are paired with paintings of swimming bears. This work, along with Stewardship, examines our relationship with nature and the desire to be near it, ideas of home and care, and the futility of our minimal efforts to combat climate change.