once there were no flowers is an installation-based work which explores human connections with angiosperm beings, inspired in part by the 1957 essay “How flowers changed the world" by anthropologist Loren Eiseley. 

Incorporating flowering plants (both personally grown and salvaged) alongside found scientific objects and prints, this installation centers angiosperms existences to recognize their criticality in the enabling of human evolution and their continued entanglements with human beings.  

fourteenfifteen gallery, Albuquerque NM

prints, salvaged butterfly bush, seeds of various angiosperms, soil, rusted metal, petri dishes, plastic tubing, yellow iron oxide, expanded metal mesh, embroidery floss, string, found scientific slides, graph paper vellum, glass flasks, eppendorf tubes, glass bead beaters, steel bead beaters, charcoal, pastels, green light gels, shadows, copper sulfate dyed nylon mesh, extension cord, humans.