The Conversion: Rings, Rupture, and the Forest Archive
SECRIST | BEACH
Chicago, IL
2025
This body of work investigates landscape as a site of memory, transformation, and human intervention. Made from industrial cordage, textiles, and steel, the sculptures turn the language of landscape painting into tactile relief, examining forests, rivers, and engineered environments as living archives that record histories of devotion, labor, conflict, and ecological change. Throughout the exhibition, weaving becomes both a method of construction and a way of thinking, where accumulation, tension, and repetition mirror the ways landscapes themselves are continually shaped and reshaped over time.
























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