Walking Flatbush, the artist map I created, was “unpacked” into a full installation to include photographs and artifacts from along the route. The piece was installed in conjunction with the amazing show, Mapping Brooklyn.
You can download the map here: Walking Flatbush
The entire series Hometown Stones was on view for the first time! 270 C-prints featuring every erratic, stone and boulder in Killingly, Connecticut. Curated by the always brilliant Mike Calway-Fagen.
Alongside Tall Grasses is a site-specific project and exhibition commissioned by the Brandywine Museum of Art. The photographs in the hall were mounted directly on plywood and were organized in groupings. Each grouping derived from a single walk in specific landscape: the town of Chadds Ford, Stroud Nature Preserve and Route 202. The photograph at the end of the hall titled July, Kuerner Farm, features an assemblage of objects and flora collected from around the Kuerner Farm property. An important element of the exhibition was the creation of A Walker’s Guide to Chadds Ford. The free guide was part of the installation and encouraged museum visitors to explore the surrounding landscapes on foot.
Walking Flatbush (or Crossing Brooklyn, Bay to Bay) was created and printed in conjunction with the exhibition Crossing Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum. The two-sided poster, free and available to museum visitors, features a walking guide on one side and an image of a bundle on the other. The bundle consists of plants, artifacts and found objects collected along the 10.5-mile route from the Hudson Bay to Jamaica Bay. The linear map includes all cross streets and highlights various historic, topographic, scenic, and curious moments found along the route.
Click here to download Walking Flatbush (or Crossing Brooklyn, Bay to Bay)
Thanks to HyperAlergic.com and LiveStreamPublic for the invitation to talk about activism and art with some amazing artists (Dread Scott, Amin Husain, Christen Clifford and Nobutaka Aozaki) Moderated by Hrag Vartanian. You can watch the conversation on LiveStream and eventually my microphone starts working…
Article about my initial 100 mile walk from Wilmington, Delaware to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Crossroads Magazine of The News Journal
The installation consisted of multiple investigations and collections derived from explorations of Wilmington landscapes and exhibited at the Delaware Center for Contemporary the Arts. The central conference table was designed as a display for the work created by twelve local residents, the “founding members” who I worked with on various park-centric projects. All of their photographs, writings and discoveries were housed in boxes and available for museum visitors to explore. Participants utilized the table and gallery as a venue for a final public discussion on landscape related issues.
Surrounding the table were photographic and collection-based projects created while exploring the landscape over three months. The large photograph, The Brandywine Boulder, is a single print on canvas and features a hidden landmark, the area’s largest glacial erratic. Tree Love, on the perimeter walls, is a series documenting the love-inspired carvings and historic arborglyphs found along the Brandywine River. The oldest dates back to 1903. The wooden wall and shelving unit were designed to display the many found objects, artifacts and ephemera collected from the area.
Delawareness / / Delawalking is an artist book devoted to a 100-mile walk from Wilmington to Rehoboth Beach that served as my initial immersion into the landscape.
Tree Love explores the love-inspired carvings and historic arborglyphs found along the Brandywine River in Delaware. Commonly considered a whimsical act of love, carving into beech trees in the Brandywine Valley has assumed a level of cultural significance that is hard to imagine. The carvings date back as far as 1903 and until now have gone completely unnoticed. Love, lust, remorse, anger and play fuse with the landscape and become a diary of generations.
