Parker Phelps is a Philadelphia-based artist who uses photography and installation techniques to create immersive experiences exploring domesticity, memory, entropy, and love. Photography allows Phelps to build a visual language of found text, leading lines, bright colors, and humorous situations. This vocabulary of images is then utilized as components in sculptures and installations, in which images compound on each other's meanings and compositions to create totemic and experiential work. Phelps’ work relies heavily on documenting human intervention in the landscape, with recurring visual themes of detritus, graffiti, and personal altars. Additionally, the imagery often reflects the passage of time illustrated via forces of erosion and the change in seasons. This is accomplished by studying his surroundings, and returning to compositions as the foliage changes or new damage has been done. Phelps has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Nashville, and Amherst. In 2018 Phelps received a BFA in Studio Art with a minor in Art History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.