Just now realizing that nearly every project/art/thing I’ve made in the past eighteen years is more or less a derivative of this pinewood derby car I made when I was ten. The more things change the more they stay meta 🏁
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsWgE2Ll81t/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1czv31fpcskvh
WE MAKE THE SAWSTOP GO OFFF. THANKS FOR ANOTHER CLOSE CALL Y’ALL. HAVE A GOOD BRAKE ✅ (at The School of Art at The Cooper Union)
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I don’t have a yellow vest but I do have one of these…and with MTA fare hikes on the way, and Amazon takeover of LIC and all the rest of it: who’s up? Ready for Gilets oranges? 🗽 🍊
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I’m doing the application portfolio scramble thing quite a lot more than I’d like too right now. But there is something surprising and warming in looking back and rediscovering some things. For example: finding again these images of the work I did with Futurefarmers that was included in Sharjah Biennial 13. The ways in which Seed Mast and Seed Journey and all the rest of it have resonated and resurfaced has for me been an enormous lesson in the sticky, kinky, tangles of art, seeds, capital, all our incomplete sharing.
Here’s what SB13 had to say about the work:
“Seed Mast (2017) takes the form of a sailing mast and serves as a literal and metaphorical antenna to Futurefarmers’ seafaring project Seed Journey (2017), a voyage in which ancient grains are transported to their geographic origins throughout the Middle East. Occupying the precarious place of contraband, the diverse biological matter is dispersed through currents, hand-to-hand networks and radio spectrums accessed via wires attached to the mast. Through a slow-scan television, Seed Mast will receive transmissions from the journey, mirroring the pace of the sailing vessel. Thought of as ‘reverse migration’, the collective aims to accent the rights of small farmers. The project also situates grains as emancipatory actors with respect to intellectual property rights pertaining to biological matter.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq-XSfVFN6q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19qv9kk3qrqrv
@audrey_snyder went out to @socratespark to check up on our sculpture/car/wet-dog-in-the-rain ☔️ (at Socrates Sculpture Park)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq5-bjLFUIx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e9xrmcjmirbo
Some days the bug—some days the windshield—most days both
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It’s a vantage which never seems to fade: Manhattan skyline viewed from atop 150 million tons of NYC’s trash collected on 5,500 acres over 53 years. A palimpsest of the city. Thanks to Lize Mogel & @mach_v for another humbling and hopeful walk in the park at @freshkillspark. (at Fresh Kills Landfill)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqVNb89l5Q1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1k050a7iy1jfa
Today @wattsei & co. blew some minds during a visit to @futurespace.nyc from my 3DD class. Here’s all of us watching a six-axis CNC go vroom💡💥 (at Future Space)
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On another rainy, foggy morning some weeks ago friend and photo-wrangler @natalieelizconn made a trip out to @socratespark to make this image of me & @audrey_snyder’s sculpture currently installed out there. The printed photo is now going in a large steel frame I made and will be in the esteemed company of a bunch of @thecooperunion alumni art works for the next year or so. See it there or see the thing-in-itself out at Socrates through March 7. (at Socrates Sculpture Park)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqIgtD9F-FC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lns7ha2x0ot5
Before the weather turns to winter! Make a journey out to @socratespark to see all the work of #SocrateAnnual18 made and installed by all the fine folks and fellow fellows pictured here. I’ll be at the park on November 11 with @thecooperunion fam for a tour of the park and exhibition from curator and public art wrangler @jesskawilcox. Please join! 📸 @artartbebe (at Socrates Sculpture Park)
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