What
is
Topographia?
Topographia uses layers and layers of mixed media materials to recreate dynamic planetary terrains influenced by geologic time and processes.
Topographia explores the natural world through experimentation, innovation, and a whole lotta patience and time.
Topographia partners with the physical forces of gravity and fluid dynamics, allowing them space to show us their creative side.
Topographia collaborates with the elements of water, earth, wind, and flame, honoring their materialistic nature and their energetic spirit.
Topographia is a technique, a process, an art style, an artist's very soul.
Topos/Place.graphia/writing
TOPO.graphia:
to Mark and Remark Upon
Topographia is a process, an exploration, a style, an artist.
A Co-Laboratory of Here & Now
About me
Life Experiences that Changed Me in Some Special Way
Artist in Residence @ Rust Makerspace, LCPL
Spring 2025
Interests
I revel in digging through local history archives and karst cave formations alike. Input the natural, sensory world- output the creative arts like mixed media art, or a short film, or a really cool gift to give and share with my loves. I enjoy projects with a challenge to take me out of my comfort zone, and in that space having a friend is handy and fun so the more the merrier. I LOVE to collab and improv in the present moment with other artists and also the rain, wind, gravity, and temperature...the variables to coordinate this present moment are infinite but art is finite so somewhere in between maybe we can exist forever...
Archaeology, Taxonomy of Man, Material Culture
Astronomy, Dark Skies & Planetariums
Aviation, Aeronautics
Geology & Geography
History & Public Storytelling
History of Science, Galileo and his daughter
Naturalist, Flower Hunter,
Paleontology, Collecting fossils
Shell Collector- Malacology
Overnight Radio Telescope Training
Greenbank Radio Telescope Observatory
2022
Lead Questioner
IQuest: Creative Games for the Curious
Founded 2015
DJ 'Space Cowgirl" in the Inflatable Planetarium "Barn"
Loudoun County Parks and Rec
Many Moons
Birthing Two Rad Little Humans
From my own cells
2018, 2020
Fossil Expedition, Badlands Nebraska
Summer 2013
Mote Marine Aquarium Summer Dolphin Data Collection
Summer 2014
Marine Biology, Limnology Summer Camp
Six week high school summer camp with data collection field work field trips around Florida's diverse ecosystems.
Summer 1999, 2000
Museum & Planetarium InterActor
MOSI Museum of Science & Industry, Tampa, Florida
4 orbits around the Sun
Guild Master (President), The Historian's Guild
Senior year, USF
VJ "DorthyHale-Bopp" 360 Dark Side of Oz
Bishop Planetarium
"Meeting" Yardley Taylor
Sometime Around 2020