is a series of photographs of quilts, woodturnings and bottles, installed on the clear cut and razed earth, taken while documenting 60 acres of urban forest, as it was being clear cut for residential development.  Each work is, in some way, sourced from the property and each interacts with the environment in a different way. The objects stand-in as witnesses to the loss of habitat for wildlife as the land is cleared, excavated, eroded, resurfaced and planted with non-native invasive plant species and monoculture grasses. 

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Bottles antique and modern, salvaged from along the creek beds, are filled with seeds collected from the property. Sealed safely in bottles, the seeds are sequestered from the birds, pollinators and animals that would benefit from their nourishment.  The seeds have no way to root, magnifying the displacement taking place in the environment. To wildlife, the contents of these bottles are life-giving, to humans they contain little or no value. Conversely, the 24-carat lids are without value to wildlife, yet humans give gold the highest regard.  The bottles represent both the wealth of food sources for fauna, and the com-modification and sale of nature.  

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Woodturnings made from 16 different species of trees that once stood in the woods, are returned to the earth from where they once grew, in an act of remembrance to give thanks for what was and for what will live on.

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Quilts made from fabric patterns designed from photographs from the forest, are laid to rest on fallen trees and the razed and eroding earth--honoring the long history of making quilts to mourn and remember the dead and as a tool of protest.

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