After

 As the fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena last January raged, I felt an inescapable urge to go to Los Angeles, guided by a responsibility to a central thread that weaves throughout my practice in the liminal space between human intervention and the environment. The first journey opened a space for reflection on a moment that revealed our vulnerability and culpability in paving the way for this tragedy and others that will surely follow. The work and my relationship to it evolved beyond the specificity of the events themselves and toward the conversations these spaces open about responsibility to the land and one another, and about landscape as image, as ideal, and as the physical platform upon which those ideals are constructed and enacted.