Cairn Series

 

A cairn is a man-made pile of stones created to mark a variety of significant features, safe passages, spiritual locations, or simply leaving evidence of human presence. Growing up near the Adirondacks and constantly exploring in the mountains, cairns have been a regular sight throughout my life. I’ve always been drawn to their gravity defying structure build up from scavenged mismatched stones, they offer a feeling of relief and safety while ironically being unbalanced and precarious by design. The nature of a cairn feels very relevant to my own experiences of being queer and finding my place within the community, never quite finding steady ground. I aim to provoke the commonly shared experience of queer people navigating their lives, how hodgepodge and precarious our support system can feel, while also being beautiful and awe-inspiring. This is an ongoing series that I periodically revisit and is a reoccurring theme throughout a lot of my work.