Art for Cabins: Fall

Art for Cabins: Fall uses the cabin and its role as a human-forest inflection point that fosters connection to place to create a point of emergence, with the work not being about cabins themselves. Specifically, this series uses the visual language of fall foliage that is often integral to cabin aesthetics as a grounding space to explore our current ecological time—one of despair, separation, and a yearning to be connected to place in the face of it all. When thinking of place in this work, it is not defined to a geographical area, but rather the emotive element of places that can persist through a rapidly changing natural environment. This type of connection to place is explored through two places, the Adirondack Mountains and Eugene, Oregon, coming together in an attempt to preserve the feeling of a vibrant fall that fades quickly, similar to the yearning to save ecosystems and our connection to them as they fade in front of our eye.