Other Worlds 1

My project, Other Worlds 1, brings to life a 1993 Sandia Laboratories Report on proposed long-term nuclear waste solutions. An imagined “atomic priesthood,” as described in a 1993 Sandia Laboratory Report, safeguards a nuclear waste site on Native lands far into the future.

It describes massive hostile architecture structures, which I depict according to details of the same report, using hand-made miniatures mixed with life-sized portraiture.

I use special effects makeup, props, and costume-making to present this fictional world that seems real through the use of polaroid collage.

Reflecting on our own world in the process of realizing a new one is a core passion of my art practice. I choose to use photography as my primary medium because it allows me to contextualize real people, objects, and landscapes into my imagined, constructed worlds.

By photographing these landscapes on traditional Native lands I am taking them back and warning others of what could become of our land if little care is given to such important tasks such as nuclear waste disposal.