KATARINA JERINIC

Katarina Jerinic makes photographs, maps and ephemera about built landscapes and the past, present and possible of particular places

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Litter Landscapes

.Litter Landscapes is a series of screen prints on trash collected from New York City sidewalks, particularly in my neighborhood where there aren’t many public garbage cans. I print drawings I’ve made of plants with melancholic names—Blue Violets and Bleeding Hearts, Depressed Clearweed and Weeping Brown Sedge—on this ordinary debris, matching the color of the […]

The sky above you at solar noon on the longest day of the year or underneath your feet at night

All the stars invisible in the daytime sky on the longest day of the year

Rock Records

. Rock Records are photo-installations of monumental boulders set in relationships with each other and with small-scale inset images, which deepen the conversation for the viewer up close. The visual language includes rocks, construction debris, and trash bags. Weirdly, at a certain distance, they all resemble each other.  The work interrupts and re-layers geological presence […]

This invisible line

Tartu, Estonia is the origin of the Struve Geodetic Arc, a chain of points used to measure the meridian line which passes through the heart of the city and stretches far beyond, from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea. Nearly 200 years ago, it provided the first accurate dimensions of the size and shape […]

Struve was an astronomer who looked at the ground

I visited Tartu, Estonia with a plan to explore it according to the Struve Geodetic Arc. As I wandered the city, I wondered about Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve himself, who mapped this chain of points that accurately measured the size and shape of the Earth for the first time. He was both an astronomer and […]

This is when the ice sheet ended

This is when the ice sheet ended, 2020: An installation of photographs, video and a free community-sourced map explore Cleveland as a post-glacial landscape

The terminal moraine is the accumulation of debris at the end of a glacier

The terminal moraine is the accumulation of earth and debris at the end of a glacier, 2019-

Beautification This Site

Beautification This Site, 2012-2016: An earthwork and self-assigned residency centering on a leftover piece of landscape I acquired from the NYC DOT’s Adopt-A-Highway program

Storm King by the Stars

Storm King by the Stars, 2014: Constellations transform a walk among monumental sculptures into two different celestial tours

Street Signs Became Flags That Mark Mountaintops

Street Signs Became Flags That Mark Mountaintops, 2012-2013: An expedition through New York City as a series of mountain climbs

Visitor Center for Erratic Monuments

Visitor Center for Erratic Monuments, 2013-2015: An resource for interpreting peculiar boulders found along Brooklyn sidewalks

Filed Under: geology, glaciers, landmarks, maps, photography, sidewalks, urban landscape, works

Views 1-12

Views 1-12, 2013: Ubiquitous utility pipes became instruments to view the near and far of an unfamiliar landscape surrounded by the sea

Landmarks

Landmarks, 2008-: An ongoing series of photographs of discovered landmarks

Desearía que estuvieras aquí / Wish you were here

Desearía que estuvieras aquí / Wish you were here, 2011: Distant places connected by a parallel past and present

Sidewalk Drawings

Sidewalk Drawings, 2008-2013: Cracks in the sidewalk are collaged together to create a destinationless, meandering path through an imagined city landscape

Public Utility Trail Network

Public Utility Trail Network, 2010-2011: Maps re-interpreting the marks left by public utilities as trail markers in a network of hiking/walking trails for pedestrians

Trail Guide

Trail Guide, 2010: A guide book to various trail markers

Local Landmarks

Local Landmarks, 2010: A pair of guidebooks to USGS survey monuments of varying scale

One step is 3.6 million miles

One step is 3.6 million miles, 2005: A walking tour of the solar system along a sidewalk in DUMBO, Brooklyn

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