In June of 2026 I began a 3-month long Regional Workspace Residency at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y. During my time there I expanded on a project that began as my capstone at RIT, At Least I Am Living Now.
This project engages with the parallel stories of the toxic environmental history of my hometown of Lewiston, N.Y. and the toxicity within my own familial history.
Installation at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y. Showcasing photographs and photo-sculptural interpretations of family ephemera made during my 3-month residency at Visual Studies Workshop.
Installation at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y. Showcasing photographs and photo-sculptural interpretations of family ephemera made during my 3-month residency at Visual Studies Workshop.
Installation at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y. Showcasing photographs and photo-sculptural interpretations of family ephemera made during my 3-month residency at Visual Studies Workshop.
Installation at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y. Showcasing photographs and photo-sculptural interpretations of family ephemera made during my 3-month residency at Visual Studies Workshop.
Installation at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y. Showcasing photographs and photo-sculptural interpretations of family ephemera made during my 3-month residency at Visual Studies Workshop.
Installation at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y. Showcasing photographs and photo-sculptural interpretations of family ephemera made during my 3-month residency at Visual Studies Workshop.
Cyanotype of a newspaper I accumulated from a box of my father’s belongings. The image includes a sketch my father drew of a nuclear waste disposal site where I live. The date on the paper is September 14, 2001.
During my residency, I began with a focus on the Niagara River and the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (LOOW) zone which both exist in the landscape where I am from.
The LOOW zone holds 250,000 cubic yards of radioactive waste leftover from building the atomic bomb. My father was one of many environmental cleanup workers who held a job as a “remediator” on this site. Yet he couldn’t remediate himself.
This project is ongoing.
