Portal / Passage was a temporary landscape intervention made on the snow-covered shoreline of Lake Tahoe in January 2026. Dragged sticks and accumulated footprints formed a labyrinth navigated by following those who came before. Foraged branches and sticks marked both the entry and the center, framing portals; at the center, a mirror reflected the entrance back to the walker, aligning entry and arrival into a single sightline.
Sited on a beach typically restricted to nonresidents - accessible only because winter seemingly suspended enforcement - the work silently foregrounded histories of privatization and exclusion in the cultural landscape, and human impact on the lake’s ecology. Walking the path became an embodied reflection on access, stewardship, and collective impact: how landscapes are shaped, claimed, disappeared, and remembered.