A mostly forgotten and misunderstood place, this inland salt marsh is moistened by groundwater seeps, with water nearly as salty as the ocean, where endemic and endangered species call home. Frank Shoemaker Marsh and the surrounding protected wetlands are what remains of Nebraska’s saline wetlands, one of the rarest ecosystems on the Great Plains. how lonely, to be a marsh is an attempt to engender an elusive place not readily known – at once both heartfelt & heartbroken.

Published in 2019 in collaboration with Platte Basin Timelapse and with support from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the Nebraska State Museum, and the Center for Great Plains Studies.

Upcoming exhibition at the Great Plains Art Museum, January-May 2027.

how lonely, to be a marsh