MATTERS

5.28 - 6.1.26

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Fieldworks: Canyonlands Residency

Canyonlands Research Center, Utah

Racking is using logs to catch debris in flash floods. It is a part of the Indian Creek stream restoration at the Dugout Ranch. These log jams push the stream banks out, spreading out the water laterally, thus keeping the stream from incising deeper into the earth and pushing the water table lower.

What a massive sculpture, letting materials push and catch the force of other materials.

At the residency, we made paper from invasive plants, pigment from ochers and iron in the earth. Each night the almost and then full moon rose behind the prow of red sandstone and we all stood in the middle of the ranch together chatting and waiting for it.

What a privilege to listen to and learn from such an interdisciplinary perspective on Bears Ears: ranchers, activists, artists, dancers, writers, and Navajo and Ute community members.

I printed a centerfold of desert work to trade with other artists! I liked how it turned out and will mail one to you for $15. Check it out here under the Emplacement Society Publications

5.9-5.25.26

Northern New Mexico

Returned to the boulder that dropped me in Posos last year
Let my cycle return to me
Led a few pitches again with good friends
Scavenged for pinion pine resin
Left some real old stories at the pond by the magic quartzite

Excited for 39:

3.22.24

Portable Smithson/Fingered Jetty

Throwback to November 2025 at a studio spot near the Bears Ears, SE Utah

Also visited a cast clasping hands and my belly button from a year and half earlier:

3.17.26

Oak Flat, Arizona

Arizona’s last wetland

On top of the biggest untapped copper bodies in the country

As of 3.16.2026, this land, sacred to the Apache people, is now officially owned by Resolution Copper They plan to use a method called “block cave mining” which would turn Oak Flat into a two mile-wide crater 1000 feet deep.

Protect Chi'chil Biłdagoteel
Read more about Oak Flat here and here

3.13-3.15

Oak Flat with Friends
Emplacement Society gathering

We bouldered, we relaxed, we roamed into the springs and canyons below the flats without trails. Alice said her skin looked like “an art project” after all the bushwacking. I said it was exfoliation: shrub spa

Jen taught us how to make string from the invasive buffel grass.

Joshua brought us the best snacks and more coffee.

1.22-1.24

Superstitions Wilderness

The first landscape I backpacked as a wee 19 year old
Ankle is doing better!
Bird

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