Heather uses photography to document human-made ecotones (ecology + tension), representations of human attempts to control natural systems. Examples include the sharp lines between farmland and watershed, city and field, port and wetland, among others. These images make up a series of aerial photographs, taken from her window seat, over the past five years, while traveling on commercial flights. Heather manipulates each piece with drafting tape on the photo and onto the gallery walls to create a choreographed display, examining her own tension surrounding the continual human manipulation of natural ecosystems.

Ecotones = transitional zones of tension between two different ecological systems.