Following a 2010 art residency at the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC) in Dawson City, Yukon, a body of work developed from the semiotics and visuality of mining industries. The series draws from the landscapes as well as human and animal lives that are transformed for the practices of subterranean resource extraction. In particularpit ponies, animals used for hauling underground, emerged as a recurring image. Since it was costly to transport the animals to the surface, many pit ponies would spend their entire lives underground. Such practices, along with the charting of claim maps, evoked questions around notions of dominion and extraction of the non-human world.