ecological art
theatrical design
installation & studio art
nature’s play
about
I grew up between the woods of upstate New York and Kansai, Japan. In Washington County NY, new growth forests have retaken agricultural farmland. In my neighborhood outside Kyoto, ancient bamboo groves are constantly pushed back by condominiums.
Across environments on the fringes of economic “development,” I seek to propel my audience toward ecological responsibility. The tools of theatrical worldbuilding situate spectators as active participants in their surroundings; the landscape casts us all as stewards. I adapt and reuse overlooked growth and waste into sensory installations and live performance.
Plants and animals experience human alterations, including art, on their own timescales. The new land art is non-extractive, playful, and supports the neglected habitats of our ecological inheritance. As I learn and perform remediation, my work initiates acts of social and environmental change.
what I saw lying in the snow looking up at the trees outside my childhood home