Images of diptych artwork dear cervidae skulls drape from the poplar like front porch chimes 2022. Majority of the work I created centered around the ever-changing Appalachian landscape I’ve grown up in. Understanding the aesthetics associated with it at all angles and how the landscape stands at the forefront yet holds the footprint of how individuals move within the setting. There’s an interesting exchange that happens between the landscape and the people. These highly textural scanography pieces are amalgamations of found ephemera that is both environmental materials, such as pokeweed, golden rod, pine needles, black english walnuts, antlers, teeth and bones, and parts of structures within the environments such as sheet metal from barns, railroad tie wood, abandoned car parts, forgotten wind chimes. It was a exploration in building an abstract landscape floating in a negative space of the Appalachian landscape from pieces of that very place.