A collection of embroidered landscapes.

This series features embroidered and wool felted landscapes of Wisconsin as viewed from county and interstate highways. The intention of the work is to show the beauty and resilience of nature between the highway and farmland.

The criticisms of the highway are all true. However, there is something unexpected, sad and beautiful about the view. It is easy to neglect the memory of the former landscape that lingers on between farm fields and the highway shoulder. Despite interstate construction and new commercial developments the land reclaims wherever there is open space and continues to grow back season after season each year. The highway allows us to view things we would never be able to see except while on the road.

Native flowers, waves of long grass, and seas of corn blowing with the wind.
A silo that rises above the land like a lighthouse in a field.
Power lines and fences that run alongside the car during the drive.
Cows, horses, sheep, bales of hay that pepper rolling green hills and orange traffic barrels that pepper the highway shoulder.

The highway landscape was not intended to be made beautiful, but when you’re looking, the beauty is there.



2026 Project Update:
My project began as visual documentation of my memories of the landscape while driving between Minnesota and Wisconsin. A love letter to the scenery of the Midwestern road trip. For years I have witnessed rural and agricultural decline due to urban expansion and have tried to document how nature regrows within those spaces.

My passion to create these works has became more urgent as I observed over time an expansive field near Sturtevant, WI disappear under Foxconn only to be redeveloped as a Microsoft AI data center. I watch and worry about the loss of the Midwestern landscape and the effect data centers and warehouse parks have on the native growth of these lands. I worry about the loss of farms and homes within the rural communities that will be environmentally impacted by these developments.

I will continue to preserve the visual memories of these landscapes and find a way to incorporate the environmental effects of data centers have on rural and natural habitats within the artwork. I hope to expand this series beyond the Midwest highway to state and national parks and the importance of preserving these lands for future generations.