I am deeply bound in the process of determining human-animal relationships and their influential or resulting geographies. Via an in-depth focus on commodity structures and sustainable actions within traditional communities, I attempt to discern the nature of behaviors and discarded histories. While I am passionate and well-versed regarding island agrarian cultural geographies and place-making, my current research focuses on investigating the parallels of animal genetics and human culture.
My art practice employs natural utilitarian animal materials such as wool and beeswax, expended industrial items, and performativity to communicate in both traditional, and community-based modes of art engagement. Primarily working with sheep and wool production as both a source material and historical research base, I travel to isolated farm regions throughout the world investigating communities, textiles, natural food production, alternative commodity systems, and human-animal histories through my work as a sheep shearer. The result is both an artistic, and analytical reference to engage the public with a historic subject that informs the trajectory of the human condition.
I have been active both as an analog and digital photographer for over 25 years. Visual ethnography is a large aspect of my scholarly production.
"Landscapes have the power to teach, if you query them carefully. And remote landscapes teach the rarest, quietest lessons."- David Quammen
My art practice employs natural utilitarian animal materials such as wool and beeswax, expended industrial items, and performativity to communicate in both traditional, and community-based modes of art engagement. Primarily working with sheep and wool production as both a source material and historical research base, I travel to isolated farm regions throughout the world investigating communities, textiles, natural food production, alternative commodity systems, and human-animal histories through my work as a sheep shearer. The result is both an artistic, and analytical reference to engage the public with a historic subject that informs the trajectory of the human condition.
I have been active both as an analog and digital photographer for over 25 years. Visual ethnography is a large aspect of my scholarly production.
"Landscapes have the power to teach, if you query them carefully. And remote landscapes teach the rarest, quietest lessons."- David Quammen
born, San Diego.California. USA
