Set 2: Data-Centric Pieces
This work was created to share scientific research and to provide a baseline of knowledge and understanding.
This work was created to share scientific research and to provide a baseline of knowledge and understanding.
Horizon
20” x 10’
Archival pigment prints of medium and large format film
2023
The images in Horizon depict the views seen by locals
as they drive through Monarch Pass. The work is meant to provide a shared experience of what is seen.
20” x 10’
Archival pigment prints of medium and large format film
2023
The images in Horizon depict the views seen by locals
as they drive through Monarch Pass. The work is meant to provide a shared experience of what is seen.
Footnotes
20” x 30” & 8” x 30”
Scanned Slides , walnut frame
2023
20” x 30” & 8” x 30”
Scanned Slides , walnut frame
2023
Drawing from the Colorado State Forest Services’ “Spruce Beetle Fact Sheet,” this artwork reinterprets the scientific data and text into visual form. The bottom frame of images serves as photographic footnotes, much like those in scholarly texts, offering key information and context about the spruce beetle, such as the beetle’s size and reproduction cycle, its complex ecological relationships, and the cascading impacts of it’s activity in the wider community.
Footnotes (detail)
While only a sample of the footnotes are included here, an accompanying website hosts the full compendium of these notes and offers additional critical commentary through annotated observations and questions.
This artwork, is an opportunity to dive below the surface.
While only a sample of the footnotes are included here, an accompanying website hosts the full compendium of these notes and offers additional critical commentary through annotated observations and questions.
This artwork, is an opportunity to dive below the surface.
Spectrum of Infection - 40” x 8”
Walnut frame, paint color chip cards
2023
Walnut frame, paint color chip cards
2023
The parallel spectrums in this artwork represent the change in color experienced by both spruce trees and beetles during an infestation. The upper spectrum illustrates the color of tree needles as they fade from dark green to grey, while the lower spectrum demonstrates the beetle’s color as it matures from larvae to adult form. These shifts in color happen simultaneously as nutrients are channeled from the tree to the beetles.
Feedback Loops - 30” x 30” each
Sun 600 Polaroids
2023
Sun 600 Polaroids
2023
This artwork is a polaroid collage exploring the cyclical processes in forest ecology. It is an acknowledgement that things are deeply interconnected—from the underground mycelium networks that trees use to communicate with one another to how cultural relationships to the natural world impact collective perception.
Thinking about feedback loops, even when the points of connection are out of sight.
Thinking about feedback loops, even when the points of connection are out of sight.
2023
Beetle Kill: Symptom or Disease? is a public art project commissioned by University of Colorado Boulder’s CASE Fellowship. Collaborating with CU Boulder ecologists and local forest experts, the resulting artwork translates scientific research and interdisciplinary questions into visual form.
Commissioned by: The University of Colorado Boulder’s CASE Fellowship
To see and learn more: www.casefellows.buffscreate.net