Do You Also Dream of Clearcuts presents primary resource extraction on the landscape and its role in solastalgia as artifacts of ecological grief. Wild clay collected from post-human landscapes around British Columbia is then fired in a pit with garbage and slash waste from clear cuts. The process demands heavy physical labour, forcing the artist-worker to reflect on the human labour expended by extractive industries. Each piece is a material elegy for landscapes that once were, with accompanying film photography acting witness both to the artistic process and the temporality of heavily disturbed landscapes.
Solastalgia: Emotional or existential distress caused by lived experiences of negative environmental change in a home environment. Where one is still at home, but home has been irrevocably altered.
Bank Erosion; commercial clay fired with cutblock slash; 2020
Full Moon, Tahsis Mountain; commercial clay fired with cutblock slash; 2020
Ridgeline; commercial clay fired with cutblock slash; 2020
Wrangellia; commercial clay fired with cutblock slash, burned alder; 2020