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Federal Felony Map of New England #4
Paper money collage
Approximately 3x8”
Legal tender, soba glue, cardboard
This “map” is what one creates when one is trained in map making and concurrently obsessed with repaying student loans for an over-priced education in landscape architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
Ecological Engineer
Mixed Media Series - Number 32 of 42 as of January 2012
Ink, graphite, colored pencil and carbon transfer on paper
8.5 x 11”
Buffalo Head Source: Harper’s Magazine, artist unknown
As the keystone species of the North America’s Great Plains, Bison bison bison shaped America’s prarie grassland ecological system for millenniums. Before man re-shaped this vast ecosystem with sprawling networks of housing, agriculture, industry and infrastructure, the American Bison were the crucial player in maintaining this delicately balanced land of grass, fire, and migrating herds.
Only 1% of America’s “pre-discovery” prairie grasslands remain today. Only 15,000 “wild” buffalo remain today, down from an estimated 80 million buffalo in the mid-1800’s. Now there are two good reasons to put a “bison head on an end of stick” if there ever was one.
Proposal Sketch for X-Mark Series
Graphite, colored pencil and ink, photoshop color
8.5 x 11”
“In time the forest hopped the stone wall into the hay field. The old man had been known to cut back the encroching forest. One byproduct of this effort, besides a pile of green fire wood, was the multi-stem birch tree, which defiantly emerged from the dry-laid stone wall.” - J.C. Jones
An inexpensive design solution for those men yearning for the days of the forest fight.
“Boston Harbor Outing”
18x18”
Digital collage, 500dpi print on archival arches paper
Four hundred years after their discovery by Puritan colonialists, the Boston Harbor Islands are still a battleground for land-use and development conflict.
Masshole #5
Ink, graphite, colored pencil and carbon transfer on paper
8.5 x 11”
The definition of a “masshole” is arguably as varied as the people of Massachusetts. My personal perspective is more concerned with local soil horizons than issues of poor driving manners or sour temperament.
Bibliography
Kohnke, H. & D.P. Franzmeier. Soil Science Simplified, 4th edition. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press. 1995.
US Department of Agriculture, Soil Survey of Plymouth County Massachusetts. Washington D.C.: USDA. June 1989.
"Bagged a Skidder"
Installation Proposal
Graphite, colored pencil, ink on Archers paper
8.5 x 11”
Deep in the woods, along Bobolink Farm’s old logging road lies the skeletal remains of a skidder. The forest, clear cut the year before the ‘38 hurricane, now stands tall among mossy stumps, stone fences and the rusty chassis of a logging truck. The third-growth forest has come out on top and in the end, bagged itself a skidder.
“Cabinet of Boston Harbor Archipelago”
16 x 20”
500dpi+ digital print on archival arches paper
The Boston Harbor Islands, largely ignored by most Bostonians or viewed as a quaint inaccessible archipelago, offer tremendous potential as both a cultural and ecological asset to the greater Boston region. This collection of islands, actually a rare landscape of submerged drumlin landforms, was made part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area in 1996. Unfortunately, only 2 of these 34 islands are accessible by public ferry.
Pinus Strobus Nurse Log No. 2
Graphite, colored pencil and carbon print on textured paper, photoshop color
8.5 x 11”
Concept drawing for an artful “scientistic” research installation intended to record the health of the helmlock (Tsuga canadensis) species throughout New England in the midst of global warming and the spread of the invasive wholly adelgid.
Concept sketch for “custom” Sol Lewitt wall drawing (#797)
Colored pencil, carbon transfer
8.5x11”