Point Reyes

I've been visiting Point Reyes National Seashore for over 30 years, drawn back repeatedly to a landscape that feels alive in ways that are hard to articulate. The Meadow Trail: 8 Days Out maps my time walking along the Meadow Trail over multiple seasons following the 2020 Woodward Fire, which burned nearly 5,000 acres of the Seashore's wilderness.

Working with cyanotype — a contact printing technique that captures light and shadow directly onto light-sensitive paper — I held sheets up to recovering foliage by hand, letting sun, wind, and the charred bark of burned trees speak through the image. The process was a conversation between my body, the blackened tree trunks, the re-growing plants, and the changing weather. Back in the studio, I wove the prints together into grids that map each day on the trail across distance and time.

The land was healing. So was I. I'm drawn to these forms that express so much aliveness and resilience — a document of the ecosystem's regeneration, made in direct collaboration with the place itself.