The story of the landscape is not just a story of healing but also a story of home and belonging. By leaning into the porous alchemy of plaster, I physically submerge, imprint, and transfer personal imagery of home. In Front Yard Comfort, I used a photo I took of my parents’ cornfield they nurtured a few summers ago. I composed the image in a quilt pattern. During my process, the liquid plaster absorbs the ink of the image; in this transition color and details are lost in translation. This gives my surfaces a dance between abstraction and representation through the flicker of image. The details lost in the photo transfer or plaster process, bring the work to a space of memory or time. Throughout my work I search for self-reflection and celebrate the discoveries offered in the links between home and landscape.