These drawings are made with graphite on silk, forming abstract landscapes in which figure and ground begin to collapse into one another. Through tracing and repeated mark-making, the images hover between observed landscape and imagined place. The series brings Gan Eden, the Garden of Eden, into the landscape of the American West, where the promise of paradise is inseparable from the histories of settlement, displacement, and possession that have shaped the land. I’m interested in the desire to see the landscape as an earthly Eden, and in the contradictions of that desire: the beauty we find in the land, and the violence that can be obscured when we imagine it as empty, pristine, or ours.