Missae Libreaa

In 2014 I was selected to represent the United States and Dane County for the Euarca exhibition, in collaboration with document 14 in Kasel Germany. I created my piece, Missae Librae, which literally means ‘freely sent,’ to highlight the ways that invasive species travel freely over national borders, while innocent humans fleeing war torn
Syria, are often not freely sent or received in the places they land. My work uses Japanese knotwood, the County of Kasel‘s most abundant invasive plant species. Working with the County of Kasel’s forestry department over the course of three weeks, we eradicated Japanese knotwood from the County of Kasel’s public land, all of which
was used to create the hanging sculpture.

Japanese knotwood, pine, metal staples, hardware, wire.

Zeigelei Museum, County of Kasel, Germany, 2015.