Wire Fence Terminal

Wire Fence Terminal is a body of artwork that serves as an inquiry into the concept of a remnant in the natural world. The project consists of a series of letterpress printed scrolls, broadsides, seed packets, and an artists’ book, as well as an installation of handmade paper seeds in found containers. Wire Fence Terminal uses the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden and the personal family story of an Italian-American fig tree that was relocated from Italy to Connecticut to examine the concept of ‘remnants of place’ and their link to human memory. The project also explores Iowa’s prairie remnants as a contrasting example of ‘place as remnant’ or the idea that land has memory.