AnthropoScenes

These images are ruins before their time—etched impressions of a world unraveling.

AnthropoScenes is a series of unrepeatable image transfers made by hand from iPhone photographs taken in California’s Central Valley, the Salton Sea, London, and Oslo. Each photograph was printed with a laser jet printer on cheap, fibrous paper, placed face-down on a preprimed panel, brushed with lemon essential oil, and pressed with heat. What emerges is not a reproduction, but a ghost: a fragile, partial residue of the original image—blurred, eroded, often broken. Each one is singular. Each one, a trace.

These works are my heartbreak made visible.

They document no-longer-wild places shaped by industry, migration, protest, and neglect. Transmission towers and concrete silos, roadside altars and urban campsites—marks left behind in landscapes that have absorbed too much. The process itself mimics ecological collapse: a transfer that fails to hold, an image disrupted by touch, time, and evaporation.

I see these works as future fossils.
Records for the future that might be uncovered.
This is what we left.
This is what remains.