Conduit
2025-current

The work in this project examines the literal sites that link the aboveground and subterranean worlds, and wants to find out what the conduit connecting the two worlds might be. I work in the field finding and documenting abandoned mines and caves as well as the landscapes around these openings. When I’m underground, sometimes I stumble across things that seem like complete mysteries to me, like a giant gate built into the rock. There are so many of these quasi-perverse artifacts of human intervention in these spaces that are emblematic of our colonization into the underground realm. These objects feel like the contemporary equivalents of ancient cave paintings to me, representative of the capitalocene and the alienation that we experience aboveground. I want to figure out what happens both environmentally and psychically at these sites after we excavate into them and mine them for resources. Also - I’m starting to believe that most everything we do has to do with the void, and especially with the way that we choose to approach it.

We don’t think about the underground often, but we should. We take all kinds of things from it and use it to build up our material world up here.



small portions of this project on view at SRO Photo Gallery in Lubbock TX + the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay WI, summer of 2025, Art Lofts Gallery in spring 2026