Erin O'Flynn

Through sculpture, printmaking and photography, my work reorients our understanding of our environment and environmental harms as a way to engage with a future that reconnects humans and nature. I focus on historic environmental harms caused by nuclear energy and nuclear waste and the effects of climate change on our infrastructure systems. Through archival and on-site research, I gather images and materials that seek to highlight overlooked histories and forms. From a place of active research, I create sculptures that reference site’s forms with metal, concrete, foam, and wood that are bent, squished, assembled or hung. The images from my research process are either transferred onto the sculptural forms through printmaking processes like screenprinting and lithography or exist as photographic prints that show an embodied experience of a particular site. I examine the interconnectedness of humans, human made forms and nature through works that show the mimicry between industrial and natural subjects.