HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
a multi-media exhibition

Human Geography explores place as a formative and enduring narrative—one that shapes how we feel, who we become, and the stories we tell about ourselves and where we come from. Landscape, both natural and other-than-natural, is understood not as backdrop but as an active force that imprints identity, memory, and belonging.

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The work also approaches the human body as a place: a living terrain with its own boundaries, tributaries, membranes, and partitions. Bones echo shells; organs mirror rocks. In this exchange, earth and body become both story and storyteller, inseparable in how emotional and psychological landscapes are formed.

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Presented as a multimedia installation, Human Geography draws from my investigation of place, particularly the region where I grew up in Southwest Michigan. Through film, sound, and an archive of objects, the installation invites visitors to reflect on their own human geography—how nature, memory, and lived experience have shaped them. The exhibition is accompanied by public performances, participatory workshops, and screenings of Angelbird, extending the work as a shared act of storytelling, one of the oldest ways of coming to know one another.