What once organized farmland now organizes information. These works are mixed-media assemblies composed of circuit boards and painted farmlands, reflecting on how the systems we design to organize the world often mirror the technologies we build to control it.
At their core is the Jefferson grid — a rational, rectilinear system originally imposed on the American landscape to enable farming, ownership, and expansion. When placed in dialogue with the micro-terrain of computer chips, the grid reveals itself as a recurring logic: one that structures land, technology, and human behavior alike.
Farming catalyzed enormous progress, but it also introduced pollution, deforestation, and the rigid borders that divide both ecosystems and societies. Today, that same grid-based thinking underpins Silicon Valley’s technologies, reshaping not only the American West but the world at large.
These works examine life on the grid — literally and metaphorically — where macro landscapes and micro circuits collapse into one another, revealing how power, productivity, and progress are etched into the terrain beneath our feet and embedded in the devices we hold in our hands.