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Settled
10” x 10” x 3”
On display and available for purchase at Jackson Memorial Library, Tenants Harbor, ME
Rooted in memory and artifact, this piece gathers natural and manmade traces of place—offering a quiet monument to what remains after we settle.
10” x 10” x 3”
On display and available for purchase at Jackson Memorial Library, Tenants Harbor, ME
Rooted in memory and artifact, this piece gathers natural and manmade traces of place—offering a quiet monument to what remains after we settle.
Materials List
Pressed fern specimen
White beach stones or ceramic fragments
Vintage postcard
Fossil fragments and shell pieces
Textured paper and newspaper collage
Ink transfer, map print, and ephemera
Found objects including rusted metal and wood
Mounted on wood or board substrate
Settled invites viewers into a quiet meditation on place and permanence. At the heart of the composition is a natural fern, pressed and framed in a circle of pale stones—like a window to a preserved moment. Below, a worn postcard suggests long-past correspondence, tethering the natural to the human. Fossil-like impressions, vintage print fragments, and earth-toned textures echo the passage of time, tracing how people mark, inhabit, and remember the land