Exhibitions:
2019-2021 Forces of Nature, Infrared Video Installation, Terminal 2, San Diego International Airport
2020 Endangered: Exploring California’s Changing Ecosystems, California Center for the Arts, Curator Danielle Deery
Leaves absorb almost all wavelengths of visible light except for green, which they reflect. When that light hits our eyes, we see the leaves as being green (ironically, we say the leaves are green, when in fact that’s the color of light they reject). But with infrared things are different. The intensity of the values have to do with amount of light they reflect, but the light won't filter through without water in the cellulose of the leaves. The trunk of the tree feeds it's limbs (and leaves) sugar in order to keep it sustained. In times of drought, this sugar (and water) is withheld in order to keep itself alive. In the distance of the video you see dead trees that were not successful in keeping itself alive through the high desert drought sustained in our southern california climate. The values of pale pink to dark pink have to do with those values of sugar and water (and reflective light), the deepest of greens being the light values, and the darker the lesser value of water.