Autogenic Habitat Modification in Art Fields at Saul Street Sunrise, a cafe across the street from Trax Visual Art Center. You can see all the artwork in the festival here. And if you find yourself near Lake City this month you can register to vote in their people’s choice award. While you can preregister to vote you’ve got to be there in person to have your ballot activated, voting is open through May 1.
April 10 - May 2, 2026, Lake City, SC. Businesses across the city will host artwork which is available for public viewing Tuesday – Wednesday from 10AM to 5PM and Thursday – Saturday from 10AM – 6PM.
Statement:
In an effort to use free resources to make new work, I have been saving all of our trash. With the help of a paper shredder, I turn magazines into paper clay which I combine with cardboard to make these rock-like painting surfaces. The resulting body of work, inspired by the endless trickery and deception in coyote and roadrunner cartoons, reads like a field of desert rocks.
What's an artist to do, gaslit and deceived of the place we call home, what was once whole is split to pieces and sold as parts for the benefit of the fewest of the few. Most frustrating is that anyone who recognized the painting on the rock was not in fact a tunnel through a mountain seems to have been ignored, or worse, told they were overreacting, while the landscape falls apart around us.
The title refers to a phenomenon in ecology whereby an organism creates a habitat through its own body structure. For example, simply by being trees, and doing tree stuff, trees create habitat for multitudes of other organisms. To some extent even tree roots can make the area around a tree more difficult for other organisms to thrive - therefore creating better habitat for itself, in the soil. My hope is that artwork can create habitat for thought and emotion as well.
April 10 - May 2, 2026, Lake City, SC. Businesses across the city will host artwork which is available for public viewing Tuesday – Wednesday from 10AM to 5PM and Thursday – Saturday from 10AM – 6PM.
Statement:
In an effort to use free resources to make new work, I have been saving all of our trash. With the help of a paper shredder, I turn magazines into paper clay which I combine with cardboard to make these rock-like painting surfaces. The resulting body of work, inspired by the endless trickery and deception in coyote and roadrunner cartoons, reads like a field of desert rocks.
What's an artist to do, gaslit and deceived of the place we call home, what was once whole is split to pieces and sold as parts for the benefit of the fewest of the few. Most frustrating is that anyone who recognized the painting on the rock was not in fact a tunnel through a mountain seems to have been ignored, or worse, told they were overreacting, while the landscape falls apart around us.
The title refers to a phenomenon in ecology whereby an organism creates a habitat through its own body structure. For example, simply by being trees, and doing tree stuff, trees create habitat for multitudes of other organisms. To some extent even tree roots can make the area around a tree more difficult for other organisms to thrive - therefore creating better habitat for itself, in the soil. My hope is that artwork can create habitat for thought and emotion as well.