Entangled Afterlives
Iron oak gall ink, ink made from sheetrock, paper made from sugarcane combined with shredded disposable plastic waste (“plasticane”), over foam and wood
44” x 60” x 12”
2020
This drawing compresses temporalities and Louisiana landscapes to examine how this environment has been exploited over time and what the future may hold. The paper itself combines shredded disposable plastic waste with sugarcane, the chattel slavery crop, to connect current issues like fossil fuel extraction and plastic production to their roots in the white supremacy and capitalism that has fueled the abuse of people and landscape from the times of colonization and enslavement. The inks are also sourced from this landscape and link the histories oak trees have seen with the shells of our fellow creatures, containing the same material as our bones and thus resonating with the human body.