Commissioned by Saratoga Performing Arts Center for its 60th anniversary, This Place Loves You Back is a site-specific exhibition and the inaugural original exhibition for VisualArts@SPAC.

Working as both artist and archivist, I drew from an archive of more than 80,000 photographs to create an exhibition about performance, memory, nature, and the quiet ways we are shaped by gathering together. Looking through the archive, certain patterns began to emerge, not only the performances on stage, but the moments around them: people arriving, waiting, listening, returning year after year beneath the trees.

The exhibition invites visitors to see themselves as part of SPAC's living history. It asks what happens when audiences become authors of a place, when landscapes hold memory, and how we are all, in ways both visible and invisible, slightly changed in public by art.