Casualties of the solar wind is a photographic meditation on trees killed by wildfire. Known as “snags,” countless of these standing dead persist for decades following disturbance. They weather and decay exceptionally slowly in arid climates. These images were captured throughout the 2026 North American fire season in moments of stillness peripheral to ongoing wildfires. They document places whose deceptive constancy is nonetheless undergoing persistent and ferocious alteration.

 

The images resist stasis. Hard edges of branches and boles stutter and dissolve into horizons, clouds, and each other. What is known and familiar is continuously re-contextualized, softly. The aesthetic and emotional ambiguity inherent in the series speaks obliquely to the experience of the artist: commenting gently on nuance, femininity, and the capacity for metamorphosis cultivated in social environments so often understood as straightforward, objective, operational, and masculine. 

 

The unstable equilibrium within the images suggests alternative modes of registering ecological, and individual, identity. Rather than soliciting prescriptive responses, Casualties of the solar wind commingles an intangible softness with destruction, transformation, regret, and renewal. The series offers reflection on the brutality of environmental change. It recognizes an injured yet full beauty possible in disruption. It observes an inevitability and even a necessity of disturbance. And it calls forward the limitations of human categories and time-frames in understanding and inhabiting lands whose rhythms resound at a very different scale from our own.