Unconformities

This series correlates my exploration of the printed mark with my interest in personal and planetary timescales – evidenced by the marks we’ve made on the world and those that have been made on us. These works cite human-made marks imposed on the land through activities like mining, nuclear testing, war, and ancient as well as contemporary land art. Our ability to witness these marks is dependent on our ability to see from above, from planes and satellites. I draw from aerial photography and depict the altered landscapes of our world as abstracted grounds. I sometimes populate these landscapes with allegorical figures from the history of art, quoting works such as Picasso’s Guernica, flattening them into silhouettes and transforming them into hieroglyphic marks. I’m using my own mark making to explore the ways that images and artworks can work to envision and challenge our relationship to the world, particularly at this moment in time.

Unconformity: 
1. Lack of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency.
2. a. The geological term for a break in time in an otherwise           continuous rock record. 
      b. The interface between strata.