Between Baucis & Two Bays draws on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, in which Baucis perches above the earth on spindly stilts, existing in a state of fragile equilibrium, always on the verge of collapse, yet improbably held together.

Using materials gathered between San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay, I assembled an installation of found objects arranged into a tenuous cityscape. I see these structures as metaphors for precarity. Each element stands in for roads, geological formations, or buildings, balanced in ways that could easily give way, yet persist through careful arrangement.

Time is embedded in both the materials and their arrangement. The objects show evidence of erosion, handling, and movement; they register tides, labor, and environmental shift. By bringing these elements together, I momentarily hold different timelines in tension, creating a present that feels suspended between gathering and dispersing. The installation frames time as layered rather than sequential, where residue of the past and the possibility of collapse exist simultaneously in a delicate balance.

This balance reflects my own observations of living in both bays, where beauty and fragility coexist: regions of immense possibility, but also ones where stability often feels provisional.

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