LANDSCAPE WORKS
Unruly Earths
These miniature landscapes are process-based, iterative, and improvisatory. I layer materials into a jar, see what they make of themselves, document, respond. The imagery, abstract and immediate, invokes natural phenomena at many scales - atmospheric flows, geological formations, fluids moving through bodies. Each jar becomes an unruly earth, accreting and transforming over time.
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These miniature landscapes are process-based, iterative, and improvisatory. I layer materials into a jar, see what they make of themselves, document, respond. The imagery, abstract and immediate, invokes natural phenomena at many scales - atmospheric flows, geological formations, fluids moving through bodies. Each jar becomes an unruly earth, accreting and transforming over time.
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Making / Writing (2017-present)
︎︎︎︎︎ BURROWS: Four Short Films ︎︎︎︎︎
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︎︎︎︎︎ BURROWS: Four Short Films ︎︎︎︎︎
Sensing and showing climate change
The effects of climate change are now all too tangible. And yet the dynamics of climate change are difficult to understand or imagine, let alone feel. How can people better grasp movements of carbon and processes of global warming that are taking place all around, every day? This multimodal project makes interrelations of carbon, air, and earth perceptible to bodies, eyes, and hands: helping to make climate change dynamics more actionable at immediate scales.
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The effects of climate change are now all too tangible. And yet the dynamics of climate change are difficult to understand or imagine, let alone feel. How can people better grasp movements of carbon and processes of global warming that are taking place all around, every day? This multimodal project makes interrelations of carbon, air, and earth perceptible to bodies, eyes, and hands: helping to make climate change dynamics more actionable at immediate scales.
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Research / Making / Writing / Teaching (2017-present)
![Conceptual montage of soil-climate relations, studio work by Ekaterina Frank and Shanie Dorais, University of Montreal, 2021.]()
![Diagram from John E. Weaver, The Ecological Relations of Roots (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1919).]()
![Montage of imagined oil-rig intervention by Thackston Crandall, coursework, Cornell University, 2017.]()
Envisioning environment
Environmental reckoning, infrastructural planning, justice activism, leaps in scalar perception. The current moment is unprecedented in its magnitude, but at smaller scales these things have entangled before.
From the postwar years through the 1960s, U.S. freeway plans and the ensuing urban “freeway revolts” catalyzed a public reckoning regarding the structures and natures of cities.
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Environmental reckoning, infrastructural planning, justice activism, leaps in scalar perception. The current moment is unprecedented in its magnitude, but at smaller scales these things have entangled before.
From the postwar years through the 1960s, U.S. freeway plans and the ensuing urban “freeway revolts” catalyzed a public reckoning regarding the structures and natures of cities.
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Research / Writing
![Lawrence Halprin with Panhandle Parkway drawing. “Photo- graphs LHA Staff and Contact Prints,” Lawrence Halprin Collection, The Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania.]()
![Left: Photograph of Boston’s Central Artery under construction. Yanni K. Tsipis, Boston’s Central Artery (Arcadia Publishing, 2001).Right: "Both Freeway Plans Rejected by Board," March 22, 1966, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Ephemera Collection, San Francisco History Center of the San Francisco Public Library.]()
Designing with
How do landscape designers’ drawing and making practices invoke collaborative relationships between themselves, other living beings, and landscape phenomena? This project investigates agentic reciprocity in design and other landscape-making practices. Mixing ethnographic, historical, and practice-based research enables a study of practices from the early 20th century to the present.
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How do landscape designers’ drawing and making practices invoke collaborative relationships between themselves, other living beings, and landscape phenomena? This project investigates agentic reciprocity in design and other landscape-making practices. Mixing ethnographic, historical, and practice-based research enables a study of practices from the early 20th century to the present.
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Research / Making / Writing / Teaching (2012-present)
![Process drawing by Parth Divekar, graduate thesis work, Cornell University, 2018.]()
![Compost portrait by Bénédicte Simard, studio work, University of Montreal, 2021.]()
