VALLEY COSMO(S)
(ongoing)
A kind of geological survey from home in Texas, looking at our urban frontiers — landscapes rarely shown in the visual conversation of west America — alongside the shared, wild bits that living within the oceanic acreage of the region entails…our fires and drought; water restrictions and turquoise springs; the dinosaur bones we still find and the Indigenous reality of today; the silence of real life on an international border and the politics of land use; where death and the passage of time are so incredibly palpable.
A galaxy of newness and myth, a follow-up to the trope through space and time, a street view of the agitated land and human existence below the harshest sun.
Begun in 2021, Valley Cosmo(s) uses black and white images to record the land’s surface layers, alongside abstract paintings that chronicle the emotional landscape that I experience across every corner of the same dusty terra firma.
