Land Mark
Land Mark was initially a project for a graduate course that encouraged work that was, "composed to decompose." Considering the location of installation floods annually from the Wallkill River, a "sculpture" that followed the logic of the concrete and ephemeral processes that take place there made sense. What began as an obsession with a collected (discarded) maple branch become a honed study into the origins of displacement.
I became lost in the function of the branches rearticulation. What more could it be, already beautiful in its state of partial decomposition. This odd parcel of landed is marked: electrical poles, guard rails, seasonal rows of corn, bent flashers, and a number of other objects in the landscape that could be understood as "barrier."
This work was initially installed directly on the mow-line between manicured public space and overgrown, dilapidated space. Since then, I have continued to monitor it monthly, documenting the increasing space between manicured and wild space.
