Video, wood, made & found mirrors, 15' x 12' canvas.
Historical topographic maps of New York City (split between Hudson Yards and Central Park) digitally mapped onto natural phenomena such as stalactites and snowfall and reflected off of four mirrors onto a canvas ceiling.
Mirror detail.
Images of the public housing complexes and Central Park which were included in the same Targeted Economic Area as Hudson Yards digitally mapped onto GoPro footage of me walking through Hudson Yards.
Historical and current records of Seneca Village digitally mapped onto GoPro footage of me walking through the same area of Central Park currently.
Stills from a vlog walking through one of the public housing complexes included in the same Targeted Economic Area as Hudson Yards in which no figure is visible digitally mapped onto the same vlog, such that no figure is identifiable throughout this video.
Hanging Mirror Detail.
The Vessel in Hudson Yards received $200 million in public funding, making it the most expensive work of public art in modern history. The Vessel received this funding through the use of EB5 Visas, where people would be granted immigration Visas in exchange for investing in Targeted Economic Areas, areas facing economic instability and in need of funding. Hudson Yards, one of the five wealthiest neighborhoods in New York City, was included in the same Targeted Economic Area as Central Park and several public housing complexes by the North end of Central Park. According to these Targeted Economic Area (TEA) maps, Central Park is the most impoverished area of New York City, as the maps go by income per acre, rather than per capita, and nobody is legally recognized as living in Central Park. Seneca Village was the most relatively economically stable predominantly Black neighborhood in New York City, located from 81st to 89th street on the West Side of what is now Central Park. In the 1860s, this neighborhood was destroyed in order to create Central Park, utilizing both undervalued and unpaid eminent domain to raze the neighborhood and begin construction of the park. People facing economic instability are made in/visible according to the whims of power, and consolidated into objectivity through the use of maps, and the manufacture and perversion of land possesses a parallel relationship to the topographic, as does our understanding of the world relate to the perspective of verticality.