In its dream-like silence, Shadowy Precipices and Light-Veiled Summers evokes images of home exploring the space between the family farm and the contradictions inherent to living on the land, cultivating the land and transforming nature in order to do so. Idyllic, illuminated, and simplified representations and silhouettes of barns, land, and plants suggest a utopic construction of nature and rural structures, yet these are illusions that hang on the thread of memory and are on the verge of disintegrating.

The installation’s topographic narrative explores the permeable
boundaries of rural structures to consider how both forces of nature and the impact of our transformations of nature act on each other, intertwine and co-exist, in both constructive and renewing, and deconstructive and decaying ways. The works act as fragile and hollow emblems of safety and security in a world of crashing ecosystems. From this scope, the exhibition explores the contradictions inherent in making shelter and transforming nature in order to do so, and its relation to our impact and our role in processes of earth renewal and regeneration.