DM Witman, eor no. 13, 1/3, hand-cultured salt crystals, 2023-24, 36 x 24 inches

Work From Ecologies of Restoration is work which explores healing and resiliency as a companion to loss and grief. 

There are many types of salts, just as there many reasons for grief, however each salt compound has an inherent crystalline structure that is influenced by its environment and can yield new possibilities. These images provide meditations for building, mending, and reconfiguring– of ourselves and the world around us.

M Witman is a trandisciplinary artist navigating the polycrisis employing photographic materials, video, and installation. Her practice investigates climate disruption–at the intersection of presence/absence, resiliency, and ecology–relying on both archival impulses and ephemerality. Her creative practice is an act of bearing witness, memorial, and synthesizing that which is existentially urgent–at once both a lament for what has been lost, and a call to action to cultivate care and resilience as stewards for what remains.