Christine Bourdette is a Portland, Oregon-based visual artist who maintains studio and public art practices. Her sculpture, drawings, assemblages, and installations have historically commented on social, political, or simply human predicaments, often seasoned with compassion and humor. Her work of the last 15+ years has undergone a gradual transformation, looking at the world through a geological lens where the earth’s fractures, folds, sedimentation, and strata speak of restless, transformational cycles, of an enduring impermanence. The sporadic shifting of terrain and cumulative upheavals are, to her, metaphors for this uncertain era we inhabit, a sense of surviving instability through instability. Earth, after all, builds on its own crumbled self. She readily tinkers with materials to achieve a synthesis of ideas, aestheticizing the residue of earthly fragility and decomposition and, in turn, celebrating resilience, hope for regeneration