Working with Tammy Jo Wilson, Matthew Johnston, and as well as other students from Lewis and Clark College, I took part in the Maryhill Museum of Art’s collaborative Exquisite Gorge Project.

Modeled after the Surrealist art practice known as exquisite corpse, the Maryhill Museum of Art invited 11 artists to each create a 4’x6” woodblock print of an assigned section for the Columbia River, working with the communities of that place to create the print.

The result was a 66-foot long print representing 220 miles of the Columbia River.

Our group was given the area where the Eagle Creek Fire burned, and immediately it was clear to me that this event would be our focus.

For this project, I started by interviewing community members impact by the Eagle Creek Fire and visiting the burn site. From the images I took on site, the team manual collaged an outline of our idea for the final 4’x6’ print and from there I created the final design in photoshop.