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 Landscape

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[field notes]

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Of settler descent, my life as a child was marked by exile from California, where I was born, to the prairie and plains of Nebraska. Isolation and the feeling of a million years stacked in the sky led me into drawing and fantasy. Landscape as a palimpsest of data-- this was clear in those days. Out on the Plains I lived a scenario with so much capacity, you couldn't  apprehend its scale and detail and luxurious excess.  Road cuts, roadside geology, sand storms, petals. ​Now I live in another rural place, Chumash territory, alongside a swamp. Chaparral plants grab onto ledges of schist. The swamp, deceptive, may have wet feet and dry socks. Swamp, a metaphor for epistemologies of the relational....lives in relation to studio, each for the other. I want to ask: what is land back in the context of this exchange?

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