Neighborhood

The Neighborhood series (2016-17) connects internal and external worlds—the world within my studio with the world directly outside.

Densely layered posters on walls and scaffolding were once prominent features of my Bushwick, Brooklyn neighborhood, before waves of new construction reshaped the landscape. These sites were manifestations of continuous cycles of deterioration and renewal—advertising interrupted by graffiti, covered by posters, all subject to weathering and deterioration. Each layer was an attempt at communication, soon covered over and transformed. The results were collaborations, linking advertising, nature, and the unregulated human hand.

These processes—and materials—found their way into my studio. I collected scraps and chunks of these layered posters. I reassembled these fragments through a process of layering, connecting, tearing away, and excavating. I incorporated hand-painted and printed papers, alongside fabric and paper from my archive—integrating bits of myself with materials from the outside world The resulting works reflect imagined excavations of what messages and other worlds might be uncovered by peeling back the layers and discovering what lies beneath.