Cook’s practice merges artistry with agricultural allegory, tracing rural America’s uneasy passage through industrialization. Balancing precision with emotive storytelling, she reflects a landscape shaped by both personal memory and the pressures of progress.

Her structured compositions echo agricultural systems while revealing an underlying tension in humanity’s control over nature. As technology distances us from food production, machines replace labor, the “acre eater” supplanting the mule, the city overtaking the farm. Her warped, stretched fields resist traditional landscape, layering fragments of memory into a quiet, deliberate disarray.