Tai Lipan

This work envisions concealed spaces beneath monumental natural landscapes, where traces of past and present quietly emerge and dissolve within unstable terrain. Moving between surface and subterranean realms they suggest a future unearthed, an archaeology not of what was, but of what may come.

Through layered compositions I examine humanity’s evolving imprint on the land and how we enter and sometimes fracture sacred environments. Ladders reoccur as symbols of intrusion, aspiration, or collapse. Yet the landscape remains active, shifting and absorbing what is left behind. These works reflect on the fragility of human systems and the slow, persistent force of nature. They invite a quiet reckoning with time, consequence, and the terrain on which we stand.

The Earth Still Holds Us

carved wood and Flashe paint

around 7”x10” each series of 10 pieces

2025

This series of intimate relief paintings invites viewers into the cracks and crevices of rock formations that shelter dwellings. These imagined sanctuaries position the rock as both witness and protector, a shield against potential surface fallout. The work grapples with the paradox of human destruction of the environment, proposing a quietly speculative world in which the earth, despite harm inflicted upon it, continues to offer refuge.