The New Gallery at APSU “Over Look / Under Foot”

Installation image of artwork in a dark gallery. Two large tents take up the foreground of the space.
A large decal of a tent installed in Utah, with the physical tent in front of it.
A white tent with arrows projected onto it.

This collaboration with Meredith Laura Lynn was installed at Austin Peay State University’s New Gallery in Fall 2020. For more information, check out the visitor's guide, which includes an essay by Veronica Kavass.

As nature writer Edward Abbey put it in Desert Solitaire, “You can’t see anything from a car.” There is a value judgement implicit in this statement. Abbey and others equate a certain connection to nature with spirituality, purity, and a unique kind of enlightenment, but that sort of experience in the outdoors deliberately excludes most park goers. Using a state with a wide variety of public lands as a springboard, we explore all five Utah National Parks and consider the complexities of a relationship to landscape that is heavily mediated by vehicles, cameras, and our own nostalgia.