Lectures + speaking
Public speaking as exchange
Lectures connect the practical histories of large-scale artworks with questions about water, climate, public space, material supply chains, and collective imagination.
Speaking
Public speaking did not come naturally to me. Working through that fear led me to discover a love of storytelling and a belief in its power to build connection. When I speak about my work, I share the “why” behind the projects: what drives me to build sculptural ecosystems, collaborate with others, and imagine more adaptive and interdependent ways of living.
Recent topics
Public food access and the commons; water as a public right; gardens as sites of adaptation; ecological public art and soft activism; climate displacement and speculative infrastructure; photography, collage, and world-building; mineral extraction and material supply chains; personal consumption and the life of objects; participatory practice; and the long-term processes behind Waterpod, Swale, Floating Garden, Ebb of a Spring Tide, and Elements in My Camera.
Selected recent lectures