the marks the earth makes on us is a digital archive of naturally-derived color. Each image is a scan of a naturally dyed piece of fabric. The scanner is meant to be a tool to record accuracy, however the ethereality and translucency of the hand-dyed silk organza messes with the machine. The scanner records highlights and shadows that are not quite what we see with our human eyes, shifts the colors of the dyes just enough away from reality to echo the ephemerality of time that the natural dyes and their impermanence imply. Yet, the digital inks record with permanent ink, attempting to insert into the archive a semblance of what plants can help us produce, but with the beautiful clumsiness of human-made synthesis.