I am attempting to touch down to earth. I am drawn to the marks engraved in the land by the geologic force of human activity, I endure a painful obsession. However, I am searching within the scars for my nodes of belonging and I find myself present within the ruins, searching for the connective tissue of my responsibility. In my artmaking, I focus on aggregates in the form of facilities for extraction, production, infrastructure, real estate development, and less impacted areas that are ‘protected.’ All pulsate as residues of the present human system. My work is interested in inhabitation: within the present modes of living that I and everyone I know are conscripted to by birth, I wonder how to build relations of care with more than human worlds.

I ask questions through community facilitation, collaborative research, photography, writing, sculpture, installation, and embodied processes.


Teal Gardner is an interdisciplinary artist from Nebraska, living and working in Boise, ID. Teal has received support for the Boise Arts and History Department,the Idaho Commission on the Arts, The Alexa Rose Foundation, Epicenter, The Union for Contemporary Art and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
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