• Welcome
  • The Compost Collection
    • Compost In Community
  • Honoring Waste
    • Lebanon Landfill
  • Artist Statement
  • Bio & Resume
  • Contact
LYN SWETT MILLER
    Welcome
    The Compost Collection
      Compost In Community
    Honoring Waste
      Lebanon Landfill
    Artist Statement
    Bio & Resume
    Contact

Artist Statement


I am an emerging climate photographer happiest mucking around with the detritus of life. While investigating compost, landfills and other aspects of our material world, I create visual meditations on the power of regeneration, transformation and renewal.

For the past two decades, I have been exploring what it takes for a suburban family of four to live sustainably. While my early work focused on documenting the beauty and power of all those actions on climate ‘to do’ lists, I now explore the dynamic relationship between myself and the material world. “Subjects” are no longer “taken,” but are instead collaborators with whom I learn to cultivate kinship

Compost is my muse and metaphor and is where I go to make sense of the world. Photography enables me to share the beauty I see in our waste and the possibilities for joy embodied in the apparent mess. My work offers deeply personal narratives that inspire conversation about consumption and our relationships to people, place and possessions.

My hope is that this work inspires you to reframe how you think about the climate crisis. Perhaps the images of compost on this site will make you smile and see that there is joy in re-imagining our relationships to just about everything.