Be in the Wildlife > Survey

Be in the Wildlife is a series of photo-based works made from 2019–2021, inspired by my artist residency in Joshua Tree National Park. Over the course of a month, I visited the park on a near-daily basis while speaking with area elementary school students, park employees, and local residents about their experiences of the park. These interactions offered varied perspectives on the park and the ways it is experienced, understood, and remembered. Bringing these perspectives together with my own experiences exploring the park and my recollections of it after leaving the area, the work considers photography’s tangled relationship to place, memory, and time, alongside my own evolving relationship to this landscape.