Rights of Way Series
2025

I pay close attention to where land and industry meet in St. Louis. The built environment prioritizes efficiency, yielding an unscenic sameness. Repetition flashes through my car window, but the overlooked plants growing in sidewalk cracks shifts my view. Perhaps the oily and cracked expanse of this city is its own nature. I have rebuilt city forms in steel and given them suggestions of motion, also incorporating paper I made from plants found in the urban landscape. Twenty-four drawings of my daily drive echo the 24 frames per second of film. This sequencing proposes new narrative time scales. In tension with the repetitive landscape, I stop looking for the picturesque.