.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 […]
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 […]
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-
Stop carrying out your intentions and watch for my signals
Sidewalk Signal Code, 2017-2018: A series of signal code flags, gesturing towards the sea and sidewalk
Cloud Drift
Cloud Drift, 2017: A series of cyanotype-images flags flown over the Gowanus Canal, transforming its murky waters into sublimely cloudy skies
Astronomy of the Asphalt Ecliptic
Astronomy of the Asphalt Ecliptic, 2017: A series of signs charting the constellations of Las Vegas and revealing visible and invisible phenomena in the surrounding city
Cloud Shadows and Drifting Vapors
Cloud Shadows and Drifting Vapors, 2016-2017: A series of images about the surface of the Gowanus Canal, with its floating debris, mucky formations and reflections of Brooklyn skies, signs and structures
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
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
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
A sign marks a summit
A sign marks a summit, 2012: A self-guided trail which wandered the grid of Peekskill, NY’s sidewalks, streets, longitude and latitude up to a local summit
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
A summit is a local point of elevation
A summit is a local point of elevation, 2011: Maps an expedition to the mountain peaks of Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Sidewalk Drawings
Sidewalk Drawings, 2008-2013: Cracks in the sidewalk are collaged together to create a destinationless, meandering path through an imagined city landscape
Trail Guide
Trail Guide, 2010: A guide book to various trail markers
Big Bang and other theoretical topography
Big Bang and other theoretical topography, 2006-2008: A series of videos and photographs made with images by the Mars Rovers, Hubble Space Telescope, and the history of the universe in mind
Faults Create Mountains
Faults Create Mountains, 2007: A guide to understanding the role of normal faults in the formation of mountains while cleaning your apartment
Proposals for…
Proposals for…, 2005-2006: I made temporary tattoos of natural, physical phenomena and attempted to put them to use while navigating the city
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