Once a River
Solo exhibition
Alpenglow Gallery, The Art Base | Basalt, CO
2023
The Colorado was once a river of immense power whose waters ground and polished the landscapes of the past to carve the canyons of today. Once a river free of constraints but now shackled by infrastructure that parcels out a dwindling supply of water to the growing population of the Western states, the Colorado holds histories that are almost unfathomable to my human-centric understanding of the planet.
Once a River is an exhibition full of reverence for what these waters have created, but also of longing for the lost landscapes of the Colorado River Basin. Imagine what the river could reveal within canyon walls had its seasonal forces persevered. This body of work galvanizes a complexity of emotion into hope as I take inspiration from the geology of the present to imagine the geology of the future. In my vision of the future, we strike a harmony between nature-made and human-made structure; the hand and the land come together in support rather than opposition.