Terri Warpinski

In this lens-based mixed media assemblage and installation work I am interested in unfolding the complex and messy patterns of our species’ impacts on the environment, and our ongoing renegotiation of its value to all forms of life. These works are rooted in the histories and futures of our fragile ecosystem from the examination of land preserves and conservation areas as they undergo a process of re-wilding and ecological recovery, to the imminent death of our glaciers and other tragic losses due to the rapid warming of the Earth.

In connecting, disrupting, and fragmenting lens-based imagery, along with the integration of text in multiple forms, and incorporating found objects and materials, I forge relationships between personal, cultural, and natural histories. Through my work I seek to make visible a state of mind, a way of perceiving and connecting information and ideas across time and space that are not entirely visual in nature; and in doing so, construct a narrative that is multi-stranded and open-ended addressing various notions related to time, observation, destruction and restoration, the accumulation of knowledge, and the shadow of memory.

Website www.terriwarpinski.com