This collaboration with Meredith Laura Lynn was installed at Granary Arts in October 2021. It was a pleasure to be able to exhibit this work in Utah, where it was conceived, after being shown at the New Gallery at APSU in Fall of 2020.

Our project statement for the work is: 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.