Possible Futures
with Alex Matzke, Tony Smith, and Josh Thorud
Sediment Arts, May 2014, Richmond, VA
Installation view of Possible Futures at Sediment Arts in Richmond
This work seeks to understand our current human-nature ecology; a system fraught with imbalance. Through multiple experiments, processes, and positions, I hope to evoke both connectedness and urgency through a slowly rooting personal understanding that we are not separate from our environment.
"The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it , and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell." Henry David Thoreau from Walden
Hut (1v Geodesic Dome), Exterior view, 2014, 7¼’ x 7¾’, pine struts, cedar planks, starplates, sod, foam, headphones, MP3 player, audio recordings from day and night near Monocacy River.
Interior of hut.
Installation view.
Live Onion Print, 24”x20”, 2014, undeveloped silver gelatin paper. Made with sprouting onion in jar, clamp light, and sunlight over several days.
Beer can archaeology, cans found along Monocacy River
River soap wash tub, soap, log, tub, water, hand towel, found tire and trash, compost.
Detail of wash tub.
Soap ingredients: Lard, Monocacy River water, lye, soil, wildflowers, foraged cider gum leaves, grass.
Visitors washing their hands with the river soap.
Installation view of takeaways and photographs.
Show take-aways/donation table for Sediment. Mead and river soap made in the Pollak studios at VCU. Pressure canned photographs.
Sod Hut, inkjet print, 16x20