With images from the John Muir Trail just outside of the Big South Fork National River in Tennessee, this tent imagines how a user could be surrounded by a space devoid of obvious human inhabitation. Empty seats made of stumps, dilapidated trail markers, and a vintage tent are used to connect to Muir's language, which some have found to be important enough to merit the protection of the land he trod, while the language reflects racist, sexist, ableist ideas about how to have an authentic experience in the outdoors.

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

Photo credit: John Dooley