Statement of Purpose - Support frontline environmental litigation and receive a signed fine-art print in return.
I work in art education and while on breaks from my job at SVA I've been meditatively photographing the American West. What began as a personal journey—an attempt to process grief following the death of one of my brothers—has slowly evolved into a long-term, open-ended project.
As the project grew and the archive expanded, I found myself questioning, besides myself, and being out there, who is this for, and what is this for? Like many artists trying to find meaning in their work I felt at an impasse.
Things began to come into focus in 2025 when the Trump administration adopted one of the most ecologically destructive public-lands agendas in modern history—fast-tracking private oil and gas extraction, weakening environmental protections, shrinking or undermining national monuments, and reframing public land as a commodity to be liquidated rather than an irreplaceable gift to be stewarded.
Below are my fundamental points of purpose for the work:
Making photographs is a gift.
Sharing photographs is a gift.
These photographs are not a capitalist venture.
Art can do better than “raise awareness”.
I want my photographs to help protect what public lands we have left.
The work should be accessible.
Leave it better than you found it.
Environmental Nonprofit Donation / Print Exchange Form
In response to my points of purpose, I’m offering select prints as a gift to individuals who provide proof of donation to one of the nonprofit organizations listed above. Full details and conditions are outlined in the Print Exchange Form. Recipients are asked only to cover shipping at cost. Terms may be updated at any time.
This Print Exchange directs aid to five organizations whose legal work is crucial in protecting threatened lands: Earthjustice, NRDC, Western Environmental Law Center, Diné CARE, and Center for Biological Diversity. These groups are actively suing to stop oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to prevent drilling from encroaching on the remaining unleased lands surrounding Chaco Canyon, and to block the creation of logging roads that would open some of our last old-growth forests to ecological destruction.
