My series Dust to Dust aims to remind viewers that we are supported by the soil beneath our feet  in numerous ways that we often take for granted. Our water, food, and the landscapes we all love are reliant on the health of our soil. This show reminds viewers that their origins, home and final destination are all in the soil. The soil is foundational, literally and metaphorically to all of life and earth. It contains everything that has ever existed in the history of the earth. When you connect with soil, in a sense, you are connecting with all of existence on earth. 

Each piece is named for the location where I collected the soil sample, or the plant pigments I used to create the peace.  Often there are little elements of other pigments mixed in, and I label those in the work as well. Each piece comes with a guide to identifying the pigments used to create it. 

I’ll be showing the first piece publicly this summer at the Converge Exhibition in Philadelphia.

After working with soil, I started to wonder what it was composed of. I  found and partnered with Dr. Allison Veach in a 5 year soil study of urban soil health in Central Texas, am attending an artist residency at the Urban Soil Institute in New York City, and writing for a book slated to be published in 2025 about soil with the EcoArtists organization based out of Santa Fe.