These landscapes are an interpretation of urban parks. Lodged within the industrial areas of the East Bay are a number of green spaces located in portions of the docks, old salt flats, and near water treatment plants & wetland restoration zones. Within these spaces there is access to a form of landscape. This project explores that space and the connections of aesthetic judgment and contemporary urban landscape through the use of mimetic images & sounds.

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Neverwas: An Exercise in Redevelopment is an exploration of architectural structures built for a purpose and then abandoned once their perceived use value was completed. Each location served a different purpose: Training Ground represents some of the abandoned military housing from the former Alameda Naval Base in Alameda, CA; Prefabricated a notorious Mobile Home park in San Pablo, CA described as urban blight; Cul-de-sac was a company town for a natural gas processing plant in rural Wyoming. The four locations all share similar existences; redevelopment plans that have taken years, sometimes over a decade and despite the best efforts for each site—there only remains discarded shells that create dystopic landscapes, evoking post-apocalyptic visions or perhaps images from a natural disaster.

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The Square Drawing series are one part mapping and one part meditation. These fictional spaces are inspired by biological forms, architecture, mapping, topology, and urban planning. Small drawings are studies in form, primarily organic and varying according to color. Large Studies were thought of as larger mapping projects based on fictional city plans.