Landscape and Memory continues my exploration of memory, loss, and the natural world through a grouping of new encaustic collages and selected sculptures from To Excavate an Absence. Together, these works create a dialogue between presence and absence—where the imagery withheld in the sculptures is echoed abstractly in the collages, offering clues to the significance of repeated forms and the persistence of memory.

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Upstate South Carolina, where my family has lived for generations, grounds this work. My connection to the region is inseparable from those who taught me to observe and revere it. As sediment gathers in riverbeds and leaves decay into soil, I see reflections of memory—accumulating, shifting, eroding. Never static.

The landscape—its clay, riverbeds, and forests—becomes a shared language of history, linking the personal and the ecological in an ongoing conversation about how memory is both preserved and transformed over time.