As Soft as Ashes installation view. From left to right: in the unraveling; burn your fences; tired of living among ashes
As Soft as Ashes installation view. From left to right: in the unraveling; burn your fences; tired of living among ashes
As Soft as Ash installation view. From left to right: bitter ashes; to be lost; confluences
As Soft as Ash installation view. From left to right: bitter ashes; to be lost; confluences

2022

Confluences
Confluences

2022

My grandmother’s fur coats, my tights, found metal, found burnt plastic bench, found burnt wood, found cottonwood wood, found bone, found insect eaten wood, found tar, ground charcoal, twine

Installation view of "bitter ashes" and "to be lost"
Installation view of "bitter ashes" and "to be lost"
to be lost
to be lost

2022

woodblock print on mulberry paper, carved wood, cast wood ash.

The wedge form created by the overlapping circular woodblock is based on a scatterplot of recent mortality rates versus future mortality for 53 large tree species across the western USA from:

McNellis, B. E., A. M. S. Smith, A. T. Hudak, and E. K. Strand. 2021. Tree mortality in western U.S. forests forecasted using forest inventory and Random Forest classification. Ecosphere 12(3):e03419. 10.1002/ecs2.3419

to be lost (detail)
to be lost (detail)
to be lost (detail)
to be lost (detail)
egould_jzeglin_tortuga-20.jpg
bitter ashes

2022

Video documentation of the artist chewing a cube of cast wood ashes

Confluences (detail)
Confluences (detail)

2022

Black nylon tights, found burnt wood, nails

Confluences (detail)
Confluences (detail)

2022

Found cambium and bark of Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), ground wildfire charcoal

Confluences (detail)
Confluences (detail)

2022

Found burnt wildfire wood, stripes of mink fur from my grandmother’s fur coat.

Confluences (detail)
Confluences (detail)

2022

Left: my grandmother’s beaver skin fur coat, cotton butcher’s twine. Right: black nylon tights, found burnt wildfire wood, nails.

the forests that are no longer
the forests that are no longer

2021-2022

found birch stump (species unknown), found synthetic twine, steel

the forests that are no longer (detail)
the forests that are no longer (detail)
things we carry
things we carry

2022

embroidered pockets from the lining of my grandmother’s fur coats, found charcoal, wood ash

in the unraveling
in the unraveling

2022

found burnt wood, rope, gold thread

in the unraveling (detail)
in the unraveling (detail)
in the unraveling (detail)
in the unraveling (detail)

2022

found burnt wood, rope, gold thread

burn your fences
burn your fences

2022

Found burnt fencing and barbed wire from a wildfire near Los Lunas, New Mexico

burn your fences (detail)
burn your fences (detail)
tired of living among ashes (installation view)
tired of living among ashes (installation view)

2022

projector, found archival US Forest Service footage from 1970, found text

tired of living among ashes

2022

Found archival footage and found text

As Soft as Ashes installation view. From left to right: in the unraveling; burn your fences; tired of living among ashes
As Soft as Ash installation view. From left to right: bitter ashes; to be lost; confluences
Confluences
Installation view of "bitter ashes" and "to be lost"
to be lost
to be lost (detail)
to be lost (detail)
egould_jzeglin_tortuga-20.jpg
bitter ashes
Confluences (detail)
Confluences (detail)
Confluences (detail)
Confluences (detail)
the forests that are no longer
the forests that are no longer (detail)
things we carry
in the unraveling
in the unraveling (detail)
in the unraveling (detail)
burn your fences
burn your fences (detail)
tired of living among ashes (installation view)
tired of living among ashes
As Soft as Ashes installation view. From left to right: in the unraveling; burn your fences; tired of living among ashes
As Soft as Ash installation view. From left to right: bitter ashes; to be lost; confluences

2022

Confluences

2022

My grandmother’s fur coats, my tights, found metal, found burnt plastic bench, found burnt wood, found cottonwood wood, found bone, found insect eaten wood, found tar, ground charcoal, twine

Installation view of "bitter ashes" and "to be lost"
to be lost

2022

woodblock print on mulberry paper, carved wood, cast wood ash.

The wedge form created by the overlapping circular woodblock is based on a scatterplot of recent mortality rates versus future mortality for 53 large tree species across the western USA from:

McNellis, B. E., A. M. S. Smith, A. T. Hudak, and E. K. Strand. 2021. Tree mortality in western U.S. forests forecasted using forest inventory and Random Forest classification. Ecosphere 12(3):e03419. 10.1002/ecs2.3419

to be lost (detail)
to be lost (detail)
bitter ashes

2022

Video documentation of the artist chewing a cube of cast wood ashes

Confluences (detail)

2022

Black nylon tights, found burnt wood, nails

Confluences (detail)

2022

Found cambium and bark of Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), ground wildfire charcoal

Confluences (detail)

2022

Found burnt wildfire wood, stripes of mink fur from my grandmother’s fur coat.

Confluences (detail)

2022

Left: my grandmother’s beaver skin fur coat, cotton butcher’s twine. Right: black nylon tights, found burnt wildfire wood, nails.

the forests that are no longer

2021-2022

found birch stump (species unknown), found synthetic twine, steel

the forests that are no longer (detail)
things we carry

2022

embroidered pockets from the lining of my grandmother’s fur coats, found charcoal, wood ash

in the unraveling

2022

found burnt wood, rope, gold thread

in the unraveling (detail)
in the unraveling (detail)

2022

found burnt wood, rope, gold thread

burn your fences

2022

Found burnt fencing and barbed wire from a wildfire near Los Lunas, New Mexico

burn your fences (detail)
tired of living among ashes (installation view)

2022

projector, found archival US Forest Service footage from 1970, found text

tired of living among ashes

2022

Found archival footage and found text

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