Using manipulated paper, embroidery, seismic data, sound, video, and salvaged stone, Jess Zeglin’s series Transformation is Inevitable reflects the instability of our assumptions and the ground on which we build them. Zeglin believes that we as individuals and as Americans need to transform ourselves fundamentally, recognizing and consciously turning away from our habits of colonial, genocidal extraction to more just, reciprocal ways of inhabiting living landscapes. She states that not only is this a path to address ongoing climate catastrophe and move toward surviving on a changing planet, but it is also a way to radically transform ourselves into more liberated and caring beings.

This ongoing series learns from lava fields, seismic activity, and rock cycles to express and sit with realities of unstable ground, necessary fracturing, and the eventual joy of processes of change that initially seem earth-shattering.