Inspired by nature and driven by climate change, my work always includes intense scientific research that weaves into the creative process. For this project I have combined various digital and alternative photo processes with sustainable art practices methodologies of artmaking. Amalgamated Landscapes is an ongoing series of cross-processed artworks - a multilayered map of my meandering through the local landscape of Colorado. Consciously collected natural artifacts—stones, bark, flowers, seeds, fungi, and more—were scanned and 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. The heat and the burn of the laser amalgamated with cyanotype process embodies the sun, the sky, and surrounding landscape into one entity. The series were started during Covid-19 as a response to isolation, evolving into a project celebrating and examining local ecology. I worked with a local woodworker and framer to create one of a kind frames specific to the location. In the recent decades Climate Change has driven local populations of beetles to explode leading to Beetle Kill Pines . Vast forests of local Ponderosa Pines are being affected by disease- a combination of beetle and fungi infestation leading to destruction of 90% of forests in some counties. The artwork responds to these changes by being framed with Beetle KIll Pine, preserving as much of the original tunnels in wood as possible.