Walking at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley, I noticed objects emerging from the soil: porcelain, glass, rusted pipes, bones, the residue of mid-century domestic life. The park sits atop a 90-acre landfill that Berkeley ran from the mid-1950s until 1983, when it was capped and converted to open space. The garbage was sealed, made invisible. But ground squirrels tunnel the soil, and buried objects shift upward; seasonal movement does the rest. What was sealed is surfacing.

I began collecting these objects and documenting their locations. Fascinated by the archaeology of modern consumption. Then the work expanded into the wider Bay Area, following garbage that moves differently — windblown, roadside, my own household trash.

I place objects directly onto Arches Aquarelle paper coated with cyanotype solution, and expose them to sunlight. The object makes its own impression, a directness essential to work about what cannot be hidden indefinitely.

Cyanotype prints
Arches Aquarelle 140 lb
Square prints 22” x 22”
Horizontal prints 22” x 15”