Drifts

A series made from driftwood sourced from Vermont and Block Island where Langlands lives seasonally, where much of the wood washed ashore drifts from forested regions like Northern Vermont. On Block Island, with its few trees—many introduced by humans—the arrival of driftwood feels like a dialogue between landscapes. Each piece of driftwood was once a living tree. After drying and treating it, Langlands brings it into the studio to revitalize, transforming it through paint and color into something more vital than dead, more tree than wood. The resulting works act as impermanent monuments, sculptures, self-portraits, and landscape painting—visual quips that embrace humor as much as resonance and invite deeper, preverbal connections between the earthly, natural, and wild.