work
When the Moon Is in the Feet, a short essay about a Babylonian memory device that oriented my family's upbringing on a southern Indiana farm, and which I rename the Moon Body, for The New Farmer's Almanac Volume VI: Adjustments and Accommodations
Five Urban Walks, self-guided audio walks and augmented reality experience for five urban ecological conditions; as Block Ecology with SPURSE and Flourish LAB. Exhibited as More than us thriving where we are (not yet) (2021-2022) in Eco-Urgency: Now or Never, a two-part exhibition at Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center (Aug–Dec 2021) and Lehman College (Dec 2021–April 2022); and in Knot in the Throat: Foraging for a Vanishing Present (Sept–Oct 2021) at Kunsthalle Exnergasse.
Indigenous Routes as Lifeways, an interview with Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan Chief Vincent Mann on rivers as the first roads and Indigenous wayfinding, for Dense, Issue 1
Transitivity: The refusal of boundaries and freedom of fluidity on Fourth Street, a short essay about Marsha P Johnson cutting across gender in contrast to the NJ Turnpike simultaneously cutting through her hometown Elizabeth, NJ, for Dense, Issue 1
Holding Everything Dear, digital publication of 40+ selected writings from Degree Critical, the online journal for the School of Visual Arts MFA Art Writing Department; co-edited with Jessica Holmes and Cigdem Asatekin
Lessons in Rotting, a short essay on the common persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) and its teachings about how to decay well in the face of a pandemic, for Womanly Mag “Issue 06: Eating Good”
Montclair Ecology Tour, a self-guided walking tour in Montclair, NJ that unravels the western concepts of nature, wilderness, toxicity, and native/invasive. Written and designed in collaboration with Iain Kerr (SPURSE) and Justin Morris-Marano (Flourish LAB) as part of Montclair Design Week 2020
Everything Is Contaminated, Pt 2, an essay on the power of fermentation in the garden and in revolution, for Degree Critical
Everything Is Contaminated, Pt 1, an essay tracing how a garden and art installations in vacant storefronts reacquainted me with the notion of contamination, for Degree Critical
We Need Embodied Criticism, a call for somatic antiracist work of the critic in response to the Black Lives Matters protests, for Degree Critical
A Face Nature “Blessing” for a Transverse Meal, a review of Madeline Schwartzman’s performance as part of a 25+ course foraged experimental dinner during DesignShed's Montclair Design Week 2019, for Degree Critical
The Aerial Muse & Maine's Fallow Fields of History, an essay on the aerial perspective and Indigenous agriculture through Yvonne Jacquette's Little River Farm (1979) for Degree Critical
Herbal, a newsprint chapter with narrative descriptions for fifteen plants, each interweaving botany, history, and lore with threads of toxicity, for the artist Marlene McCarty's Into the Weeds exhibition and publication
Home is Here and No Other Place, a review of "Siah Armajani: Follow This Line," the 60-plus-year retrospective of public artist Siah Armajani, at The Met Breuer, for Degree Critical
The Place of a Displacement, an etymological investigation of how the place where images are housed affects our belief in them, for Politics of Home
Rosy Fingers, an imagined story of my great-grandparents cross-stitching an heirloom quilt as a topological exploration of my Hoosier ancestry, for Politics of Home
Abysmal Grief, Ephemeral Beauty: On the Poems and Photographs of Eileen Myles, a review of "poems" at Bridget Donahue Gallery about the mundane as transformative, for Degree Critical
archeology of aesthetics, my birth (2018), carmen winant, tughra of sultan süleiman the magnificent (1555-60), ekphrastic nonfiction and fiction reflections on works of art in NYC, in Taco Pig, for the School of Visual Arts MFA Art Writing 2019 Summer Intensive with art critic Jarrett Earnest
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