urban landscape

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 a series of photo-collages and photo-installations which reflect on the past and present of the built landscape. They are loosely based on the common practice of attaching commemorative plaques to large boulders–often glacial erratics–overlapped with the way that geologists study the planet’s history by “reading” its rocks. . Rock Record # 14, […]

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 […]