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Videos
PA 61 (Destroyed) Marginalia, 2018 (Installation View)
Just outside of the eastern ghost town of Centralia, Pennsylvania sits a mile-long stretch of abandoned highway. Its surface has been buckled and cracked by an underground coal fire. Unofficially christened “Graffiti Highway,” Google Maps lists it as “PA 61 (Destroyed).” Today the road is a cacophony of color. Crudely written names, quippy messages, simple drawings, love declarations, juvenile vulgarities, twitter handles, and phallus’ abound, completely covering the blacktop with a rainbow of language. The color is synthetic of course — straight from the can. The palette is mostly from the Rust-Oleum corporation of Vernon Hills, Illinois. The brand offers eight blues, eleven browns and seven shades of red. Rival Krylon boasts twenty-six shades of green and nineteen oranges. The explosion of color now expands past the road and onto the abutting maple saplings and sumac bushes - marginalia to the text of the highway. Imbued with fantasy, it’s tempting to imagine these trees sprouting from the underground conflagration and blossoming in new and mutated ways. A twelve-ounce can of spray paint retails for around four dollars — a cheap and easy way to alter the natural hues of Eastern Pennsylvania.Added on: July 24, 2018
87.5 to 107.9, 530 to 1710
87.5 to 107.9, 530 to 1710 explores breakdown. Interrogating the aesthetics of radio both historically and in speculative futures, this work examines removal of the lifeline provided by terrestrial broadcast. Losing-the-signal has become a trope of post-apocalyptic fiction, a metaphor for societal disintegration epitomized by the absence of pop-connectivity. No more news and weather on the tens. No more top 40. No more pledge drives. This removal of information becomes a slowing, a reversion to an uncomfortable pre-technological age. Utilizing the format of the digital display, an efficient form capable of replicating the English alphabet, select punctuation, and digits 0 - 9, 87.5 to 107.9, 530 to 1710 presents relics of radio in an imagined future.Added on: July 24, 2018
Untitled
A quiet, abstracted dystopian thriller screening next to the promise of Boston's Big Dig.Added on: July 29, 2019
Trees that talk to each other (a draft)
Added on: July 29, 2019