Terraforma is a new body of work comprising woven photographs and drawing. Terraforma emerges from travel undertaken as embodied research, moving through sites shaped by displacement, ecological stress, and geopolitical conflict.

The impetus for this work emerged during several trips to the Arizona-Mexico border wall over the last year. The journey itself became a method: driving, walking, observing, and recording the landscape where the desert, infrastructure, and surveillance systems converge. The border wall cuts across hillsides, interrupts animal paths, fragments ecosystems, and imposes a rigid geometry onto a landscape defined by fluidity and seasonal change, radically reshaping how the land is inhabited and imagined.

The scale and violence of this intervention are difficult to translate through a single photographic image. In response, I am cutting and weaving my photographs, a process which fractures the original image and reassembles it into a composite field in which sky, vegetation, steel, shadow, and ground interlace. The woven structure echoes both textiles and barriers, evoking labor and repair, while refusing a fixed or singular perspective.

I am also introducing saturated color to further destabilize the recorded image and to align Terraforma with the speculative future world of LoopCurrent. Drawing on the theory of redshift, the stretching of light toward longer, redder wavelengths as the universe expands, I am interested in color as a marker of temporal displacement. In these works, intense reds, pinks, violets, and other heightened hues do not describe the landscape naturalistically. Instead, color acts as a force of alteration, pushing the image away from documentary and toward a vision of place seen across future time.