Welcome
This website is designed to publicly share my learned experiences in spaces where water and communities meet and do not hold over time, but instead renegotiate, make and unmake one another, interact to form new unexpected possibilities. Over 25 years I have spent time on rivers, islands, lakes, and coastlines on every inhabited continent, interrogating water relationships. These spaces hold the potential for reimagining futures that effectively weave together multiple, simultaneous traditional, contemporary, and speculative worldviews. I do not believe that one way of knowing is enough to describe and confront planetary challenges. We need everybody in this moment. These pages hold work that attempts to combine science and technology to measure with art to know what cannot be measured, with maps to communicate beyond words ways of knowing and highlight intersectional realities that we can feel as much as see. None of these tools is complete on their own. Just as multiple epistemological and ontological approaches are necessary to make sense of our universe and our place in the universe, multiple expressions are needed to articulate. My practice is grounded in these dynamic, relational spaces of a continual becoming. Borderlands, in this sense, are not margins and are not just contact zones, but are multi-dimensional generative realities. I am drawn to these sites of encounter where distinct worlds meet and reshape one another because they are hard to pin down, unsettled, entangled, dynamic, inspiring, and continually forming. I engage with this research not to resolve, but to stay with their tensions.

