Picking up the pieces is meant both literally — each painting is mounted on a magnet so they can be picked up and rearranged to explore patterns and relationships — and in relation to the ecologic recovery taking place in canyons that are becoming exposed as reservoir levels dropped.

The paintings were inspired by a visit to the Glen Canyon watershed. I was most intrigued by patterns that repeat over a range of scales: similarities in shapes of watershed maps and leaf veins, gullies in the sand and canyons in sandstone, slumping of banks on tiny creeks and the Colorado river.

This installation was made for the Rivers of Change symposium on Glen Canyon. Thanks to Glenn Canyon Institute and Returning Rapids Project for hosting a fantastic event! Honored to have been a part of it.