river's hypha-gallery-catford yet finding a way to

yet finding a way to experience a degree of solace can feel desperate

the ways individual memories and habits become entwined

mapped out in snake bones

and the boundaries between real and imaginative

connection with planet Earth

river's hypha-gallery-catford yet finding a way toMaking collage is rooted in childhood memories of cutting images from Sunday supplements. Today I work with National Geographic magazines, drawn to their depictions of specific environments and the people and ecologies within them. As I search through their pages, questions surface. Does this place still exist? How have these landscapes and communities changed? Handling these magazines becomes a way of reconnecting with distant, highly evolved natural