Of Timber and Titanium

This project traces the entangled relationships between extraction, labor, and landscape in Georgia’s lower coastal plains. Across timberlands, mines, and natural ecosystems, it examines how industry and ecology shape one another. Rather than offering a simple critique, the work acknowledges industry’s deep role in regional life while holding it in tension with ongoing ecological impacts. By placing industrial sites alongside forests, rivers, and marshes, it frames conservation and development as interdependent, contested systems rather than opposing forces. The project invites viewers to consider their place within these systems, reflecting on how materials, economies, and environments are intertwined, and how individual and collective choices shape ecological futures.

This work is supported in part by a grant from the UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant.