lost thicket

Lost Thicket is a multichannel new media installation commissioned by the San Antonio Botanical Garden for the 2025 exhibition Reflections in Nature. Installed in the Garden’s preserved nineteenth-century East Texas log cabin, the work meditates on the incompleteness of ecological archives, focusing on the southern pine forests—an ecosystem where rapid logging caused many species to disappear before they could be documented. This temporal compression—industrial extraction collapsing millennia of biodiversity into mere decades—renders the archive of the Piney Woods as a site of absence.Intended to be a subversively disquieting environment in which sacred architectures, ecological loss, and digital artifice converge, Lost Thicket reflects on the shifting direction of reality in the digital age. It suggests that just as ecosystems were once erased before their complexity could be fully grasped, so too does digital technology reconfigure how we apprehend, remember, and even imagine the real.


Lost Thicket, installation shot, wooden panels and 3D printed relief in bio plastics, Piney Woods Cabin, Botanical Garden, San Antonio, TX; courtesy of the artist