Polaroid triptych · 2024
For decades, the Southern California desert has been reshaped by unsustainable agriculture and, more recently, lithium mining—extractive forces that have led to ecosystem collapse, toxic dust storms, and vanishing night skies.

These Polaroid images are not nostalgic. They are records of harm. Faded, oversaturated, and chemically unstable, they reflect what has been lost—not only birds, butterflies, and stars, but the sacred balance between land and life. The pink hue is not a filter; it is the film’s decay, a material echo of ecological ruin.

What once shimmered with presence now strains to be seen.