These durable artifacts hold the ephemeral line-work of mothers, makers, and hunters, along with silhouettes of windblown dust and debris, for present and future study. Mapped to its maker’s body, the heart of the web may be understood as an abstract, full-figure self portrait. I harvest webs at sustainable rates with non-toxic materials, documenting the line work of a small community of spiders for the course of their lives (spiderling, adolescent, adult, and elder). I practice cross-species collaboration for the experience of interrelatedness.

I began using photograms to document atmospheric water by chance. Quickly, it became a way for me to document a brief moment for a small volume of atmospheric water, hold it for extended reflection, magnify it for new insights and ways of naming. With a portable darkroom, I gathered many records or portraits of atmospheric water in different places. I began to read them as a story of the planet.

“American Fog” is an 8-by-20-foot installation of a magnified portrait of a small area of fog. Each droplet is cut from paper money.

Empty record players provide cyclical action. Distributed through a network of thread to a constellation of found artifacts, the action generates ever-shifting interrelationships as artifacts and their stories sway and swing and turn in slowly mutating patterns, including patterns of silent near-misses and sounding connections.