Landlooker Project
With this work, I am responding to the way land was changed in the 19th and 20th centuries, when vast stands of old-growth forests were logged in the upper Midwest, Northeast and Pacific Northwest. This project addresses historical processes of extraction, labor, colonization and the aftermath of ecological devastation left in the wake of logging. Accompanying this is an interest in the technologies and methods of transforming the landscape, a reflection on how biological entities are seen, analyzed, measured, turned into units and objects. This work explores logging culture and formations of American masculinity related to this labor history that continue to circulate today.