Shifting Scapes

Shifting Scapes is a three-part series unfolding across deserts, wetlands, and mountains. Through photography, sculpture, and land art, the work explores the contemporary relationship between humans and the environment. Site-specific interventions made with aluminum foil, are used to transform a mass-produced material into artifact.

The project originated during a thirty-day solo journey across the American West, where the artist lived within the landscape, shaping foil into reflective sculptural forms placed in remote environments. Light and hollow, these volumes echo geological formations while remaining unmistakably artificial—alien presences that appear as if generated by the earth itself. The process expanded through Tracce, developed in Mexico, where foil sculptures drifted through the canals of Xochimilco and appeared within the tunnels of Yucatán cenotes.

Water collected from each site was used to contaminate photographic negatives, producing chemical imprints of place—traces of the landscape embedded directly onto the image, where object and subject informed one another. The final chapter, Intersections, shifts to the Italian Alps, where mended sheets of foil emerge from cavernous interiors. Reflecting and deforming with the terrain, these forms rise from the earth so deeply intertwined with it that they appear to be of its own making.

Across the three chapters, the work reflects on how human waste transforms within natural systems— turning into artifact and reshaping the geology of the landscape.