The project explores the difference between informal and formal symbols in the Department of the Interior (DOI), and the implication of the well known environmentalist trope “Take only pictures, leave only footprints.” The project complicates that phrase, instead asking “Take only pictures, but don’t leave footprints” as a way to reference the impact of tourists off trail, particularly as it relates to Cryptobiotic soil crust.

Shown in various ways at Michigan Technical University, the Beverly Sam Ross Gallery, and Crosstown Arts.