Many native tribes marked trails, water sources and other important areas by tying down saplings so that they would grow into permanent markers.
I am interested in the physical manifestation and human impulse to make markers as vehicles for storytelling, wayfinding, memorializing, and location-siting. With this body of work, I am investigating both abstract and figurative representations of marker as directional sign; act of negation; a common signature for an illiterate; symbol for a kiss; a spot on a map.
I am compelled by how the senses are engaged in memory—how, for example, the touch of wool or the scent of cedar trigger the embodiment of a story.