This series of cross-processed artworks creates a multilayered map of the artist’s meandering through our local landscape over the last three years. Consciously collected natural artifacts—stones, bark, flowers, seeds, fungi, and more—were scanned then returned to their place of origin. The resulting cyanotypes are each etched with a unique pattern that delineates the associated hiking path as recorded by GPS. Resembling wind movement and shadows, these “drawings” tell a story of artist and object in a time and place: the complex, changing ecology of Colorado. Inspired by nature and driven by climate change, Warner’s art always includes intense scientific research that weaves into the creative process. Originally from Eastern Europe, Darya Warner states that, since arriving in Colorado in 2021, “all I see is the SKY. I flood my mom with images of the landscape that are always followed by one word comment from her: ‘Cosmos.’ I thought working with cyanotypes might bring me closer to describing how I felt every time looking up: the sky consumed, melted and dissolved me - the dive into the blue reminded me of the seawater that I miss so much. The heat and the burn of the laser amalgamated with cyanotype process embodies the sun, the sky, and surrounding landscape into one entity, encapsulating the feeling I get when I go outside: radiance of life despite it all.