Thirteen Hours to Fall

Thirteen Hours to Fall examines the climate crisis through investigations of contemporary and future littoral zones. This project includes large-format color photographs, photomontage, video, sculptural book forms, and 19th century-inspired salted paper prints created with water collected at the site of a North Carolina ghost forest. Manifest with the sea itself as a collaborative image maker, water collected from within the growing marshlands is distilled to form the photographic emulsion used to visualize the changing landscape around us.

These works ask the viewer to bear witness to the complex history of this region. Colonial timber industries, plantation farming, and climate change have extensively altered this particular region of North Carolina. This project sheds light on how colonial capitalists, the ensuing extraction economy, and rising sea levels have dramatically changed this landscape over the last 400 years. This interdisciplinary and intersectional project is informed by environmental history, indigenous and maroon communities’ land management, geography, hydrology, and maritime traditions including mapping and way-finding.