Installation

Photo Aug 26, 1 58 19 PM.jpg — Museum of the Archeosphere

**Glean Artist Residency** -2017
The Earth is layered. Geological layers tell the history of our planet. At the very top of these layers, we find the history of ourselves. In the Age of the Anthropocene, humans have sculpted the Earth. Our presence in the Anthropocene can be found in the geological layer called The Archaeosphere where our environment and experiences are largely manufactured by our own design.
The effect of industrialization is etched onto the surface of our land; naturally created markings on extracted frozen ice cores, reveal the rise and fall of carbon levels in our atmosphere.

Sprinkled above the bones of our ancestors, is the sediment of fossilized civilizations and the detritus of modern day mechanization. Our impact across the surface of our plane is uniquely visible in the geological layer known as the Archaeosphere.

For centuries, have we been burying the bodies of our ancestors in the same manner that we bury our trash. What does this say about our culture? If we were to look at our relatively deep impact on the environment in our short amount of time inhabiting it, what can we surmise about our relationship to our planet?

What does our trash say about who we are and what we value?

Frontier

**Basement Gallery, Oakland CA** -2016
*Frontier* presents a vision of exploration and conquest during the Age of Imperialism in the Americas. The installation takes the form of an immersive panoramic diorama built out of beeswax and lit with heat lamps. Ephemeral by nature, this material will experience melting, casting, forming and finally melting again during the course of this exhibition.

Frontier intends to both build and destroy historical notions of the past by creating museum quality dioramas and literally allowing them to melt away. In Frontier, my work searches for the elusive and misguided promise of truly untouched lands and considers this idea from the perspective of naturalists, who are themselves, invaders.

Before the Melt

After the melt

The Marcus Kelli Collection

**Shown at Basement Gallery 2012, Bedford Gallery 2012, Faultline Studios 2013, Aggregate Space 2014, Worth Ryder Gallery at UC Berkeley 2015, Boy's Fort PDX 2016**
The Marcus Kelli Collection is a fictional archive of natural history specimens and artifacts from the created life of the naturalist, Marcus Kelli. The Collection displays specimens and Kelli’s personal effects in the format of an interactive museum, providing a tension between fact and fiction.

I step into this imagined world as curator and head restoration artist of the Marcus Kelli Archive and Museum. Receptions become performances as I provide expert information on the collection to viewers. The Collection is inspired by 17th and 18th century cabinets of curiosity and the early explorers who saw things that no one in their cultural circle could have imagined. I aim to inspire curiosity and tug at the desire to study and discover the unknown.