Forest & Stream, 2009. A collaboration with Nicholas Fraser, 38 site specific installations placed on October 25, 2009, 14th street in New York. For one day, color coded texts of powdered chalk describing various types of forest and water features were placed in the approximate location of the now urbanized sites. The texts, based on data from the Mannahatta Project, … [Read more...]
Urban Forest on 14th Street
Urban Forest on 14th Street, 2009. 5.5 x 8.5 in., 12 pages. Urban Forest on 14th Street is a self-guided walking tour comparing today's 14th street in Manhattan to the same place 400 years ago, based on data from the Mannahatta Project. The map-guide (dowload as PDF here) explores the street block-by-block from the Hudson to the East River, showing the forest types, ponds and … [Read more...]
A Block of Alleys
A Block of Alleys, 2005. 6 x 9.5 x 2 in. closed. Etching and letterpress printed, edition of 10. A Block of Alleys is an accordion-style book which depicts all of the alleys in one block in Queens, New York. The buildings on each side of the alley are facing one another, so the city block is paged through, alley by alley, as the book is viewed. … [Read more...]
Roofs print series
Roof prints A series of prints of rooftops as seen from the elevated trains in Queens, New York, The roofs are presented isolated from the building below, through etching methods that use pressure and natural slippage of the press to emphasize the drifting, uprooted quality of the roofs. Roofs 2, From the N, 2004. 6 x 8 in. Etching and chine collĂ©. Roofs 7, From … [Read more...]
Push for Luck Project Archive
PUSH FOR LUCK Project Archive, 2012. 4.25 x 6.87 in, 98 pages. According to a New York Times article in February of 2004, New York City deactivated most of its pedestrian crosswalk buttons, and the buttons that still exist function only as mechanical placebos. Any benefit from pushing the buttons is only imagined. As a response to this article, a sticker sign was placed on … [Read more...]