I create work in response to resource extraction and its environmental impact, rooted in my ancestral labor history and inhabitation of mining regions. I continued exploring that theme in Poland, as my ancestors emigrated from this region in the late 19th century and worked as coal miners in Pennsylvania, where I am from. The landscapes of both places still bear scars of their industrial pasts. Through non-toxic intaglio printmaking, animation, and artist books I present structures as storytellers, removed from their original function in their decline to disrepair and abandonment. As a printmaker I have primarily worked with the mezzotint process. The surface is roughened and then scraped down, methodically removing surface material to develop the image: an extractive / reductive process on a smaller scale. Human industrial pursuits demand elemental control through systems of artificial order, yet this is negated by increasingly destructive climate events. My current work features water pressure towers, abandoned mining structures, and early industrial water management systems, now marked with the stains of floodwater, cracked and collapsed in the destabilizing climate. Towers (water towers, prison towers, watchtowers, hunting pulpits) have always intrigued me, as providing a vantage point, with the function of surveying or controlling something. In the face of a rapidly changing climate and increasingly destructive flooding, I consider them a visual metaphor for control, or the lack thereof.