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Distance Passed 1–15

ink, gesso, charcoal, acrylic, and collage on paper, 2015

Over-all dimensions: 5 inches x 96 inches x 1inch

In the summer of 2014 I drove thousands of miles to visit remote field stations in the Pacific Northwest where I had previously lived and worked as a field biologist in my early twenties. I smelled the sweet sage of the Alvord Desert and the earthy ferns of the coastal rain forests. I saw my handwriting on the tags of dusty stuffed bat and bird carcasses in the teaching collections and my blurry black and white photo still tacked up on the wall, but the person I was then remained as distant and unknowable as she was before my trip.