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Mark Baugh-Sasaki has centered his practice on the ever-shifting dynamics that connect humans and the environment, continually returning to the relationship between how we define “place” and how it defines us. The artist contends that terms such as “nature” and “natural landscape” are inherently problematic and biased, leading him to explore how those terms have influenced and reshaped our understanding of the environment, as well as our role within it.

Over the past year, Mark Baugh-Sasaki and Mehr Kumar, a researcher in the Oceans Department at Stanford University’s Doerr School of …