Glassell Gallery

• On View: April 12-19 

• Reception: Thursday, April 17 6-8 p.m. / Gallery Talk 5:45 p.m. 

Amber grew up in rural southwest Louisiana, surrounded by forest for most of her adolescence. She used the forests as a type of escapism as a child to get away from her chaotic and abusive home life. When she moved back to Louisiana for graduate school, she saw the damage the logging industry did to her hometown without attempting to repair and replant the trees. While researching the life of trees, she saw some connections between the nature of trees and humans. She makes intaglio and lithographs showing this irreversible damage to the environment and relates it to the irreversible damage to one’s mind after surviving child abuse.