Elaine Parks

As an artist, I am interested in the intersection of man and the natural environment. This interest developed in a remote high desert area of Northeastern Nevada, where the evidence of a former civilization revealed itself in scattered remains and the landscape has overtaken much of what had been th…

My work is influenced by the landscape I live in. For 10 years that landscape was a tiny, turn-of-the-century mining town in the Nevada high desert. The random patterns of the pillow-like ceramic forms referenced many things, stars, ant hills, patterns on rock - all impressions of the high desert. T…

Swarm, an mixed media installation of Mormon Crickets at the Nevada Museum of Art is based on lived research of co-existing with swarms of Mormon Crickets in Northeast Nevada. This work came about as a way of coping with my fear of sharing the land with millions of bugs and led me to a rich understa…