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If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Digital, Installation, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture

About my artwork: The dizzying variety of environmentalism at play today include wilderness preservation, conservationism, green consumerism, developmental “sustainability,” and political ecology, amongst others. Many of these environmentalisms are contradictory, and have their own goals, methods, utopias, sets of evidence and issues at stake. Many eco-isms naturalize their stories so that they construct a specific type of world that dictates the specific types of ecological problems, values, and solutions possible within them.

My artwork takes different ecological narratives to their logical extreme to create speculative spaces, futures, and relations of human-ecology interactions that are made possible by each eco-ism. The rationale for extending, hyperbolizing, or enacting these different descriptions of the world is to investigate the cultural, social, political, and economic values that go into each one. I use the trope of the diorama and walk-in installations to be formally appropriate to the “world making” practice of environmentalisms.