Cataloging

A collage of found images of outdoor spaces, with the text "in the morning I was cold and wet with dew" on it. This is sliding off the wall.
A collage of outdoor images with "No bird or flower or friendly tree above me." written on it in reflective vinyl.
A collage of outdoor images with "What a comfort a companion would be in the dark loneliness of such nights" written on it in reflective vinyl.
A collage of outdoor images with "As I lay down in my moss nest, I felt some cold-blooded creature." written on it in reflective vinyl.
A collage of outdoor images with "Somewhat disturbed by prickly-footed beetles creeping across my hands and face." written on it in reflective vinyl.

Advertisements make a claim that an experience of the outdoors can be authentic, but products disrupt the experience of the outdoors, by making it more comfortable but also by separating people from that experience. Vintage outdoor advertisements are paired with quotes from John Muir's A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf to highlight that dissonance.

Created with Meredith Laura Lynn. Shown at the Gadsden Museum of Art and Blue Heron Nature Preserve.

Photo credit: John Dooley, found imagery from Utah State University Special Collections and Archives