‘Openings’ is an impermanent series of sculptures that was installed downstream of Tokopah Falls, September 2020. I acknowledge Tokopah Falls to be in the unceded lands of the Yokuts Tribe. 

My partner and I drove north from LA to camp in Sequoia National Park in September 2020. It was the beginning of a chaotic extended wildfire season.  Thick grey smog lay heavy above us. I had brought with me a selection of ceramic beads and sculptural fragments from my studio. We camped in the pines at the foot of a stream cascading over large slabs of granite, pooling in worn blue peanuts. As the sun rose over the quiet campsite, I headed to the stream with my camera and ‘box of bones’ (as later described by a neighboring camper). I collected smoothed pine branches from the edges of the stream, and tufts of wolf lichen that specked the forest floor along my way. In the brightening morning light, the granite appeared ice blue. I collaged together my bones and the body of the mountain, it was play. Later when I looked back at the photos, I thought it seemed as if the rock had shifted, revealing an opening between their planes, lined in lime lichen.