A sustained inquiry into land, use, and memory, trees rivers roads traces human intervention across watersheds of coastal British Columbia. Through paintings, images, and fieldwork, the series explores how natural systems are restructured by industrial and architectural processes.

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Roadside, Powell River
2025
Graphite, pastel, and charcoal on wood panel, framed
61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36 in)
 

Roadside, Powell River depicts a cropped view where a logging spur meets disturbed terrain, capturing the threshold between built path and forest floor. Areas on the left side of the composition intentionally omit drawn material, exposing the raw wood beneath and allowing the surface to function as both subject and structure. The result is a layered reflection on landscape, process, and omission.

Processor 2-A
2025
Gesso and ink on archival paper
61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36 in)
Variable Edition 2/3 - 3/3

Processor 3-A
2025
Gesso and ink on canvas
38.1 × 110.5 cm (15 × 43.5 in)

Part of the Trees, Rivers, Roads project, Proxcessor 2-A was created using traditional printmaking techniques with an industrial log as the printing plate. The impressions record both the bark’s organic relief and the geometric scoring of processing machinery—specifically the tooth patterns of the delimbing and debarking head. The work situates this mechanical trace within the language of landscape and artifact, balancing texture and form as evidence of extraction and transformation.
 

Expanding the method beyond paper, Processor 3-A explores scale and materiality through canvas. The elongated format emphasizes flow and directionality, echoing both the passage of the machine through the forest and the translation of that motion into surface and gesture. The work deepens the project’s examination of how industrial systems leave aesthetic and ecological imprints alike.