https://envisioningjustice.org/ This project is a collection of objects built, considering the poetic outlines of hope, stress, and a selection of sentient wishes for our city on incarceration. It equally, reaches back in time. A time in the early-mid 1990s when I went inside the Juvenile Detention Center with friend and artist Michael Piazza. I was […]
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We're thrilled to announce that we are collaborating with Johnannesburg's Keleketla! Library and the Chicago-based Stockyard Institute this year for the Chicago Architecture Biennial to create an installation that focuses on neighborhood memories and collective experiences, as well as their disappearances. The project will be located at our future home at the last of the Jane Addams Homes on Taylor Street.
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The Clear Lake Project is a working meditation on a place of my youth and currently, as a material source for rebuilding two small cabins in Chicago that sat on this site for most of the 20th Century.
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This wooden knuckle (prototype) is a preoccupation with wood carving I taught myself as a young boy scout. I carved walking sticks, stakes, and survival tools for staying outdoors in the middle of nowhere. They were adornments, tools, supports, and weapons. This is a collection for a proposed publication of unrealized projects from elementary school.
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These are a series of hand-built wooden podiums from materials of Chicago and St. Paul, MN as objects to provide a public platform for children, invited cultural spaces, youth, and schools.
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Regret letters from 5 politicians I invited to my Eagle Scout ceremony in 1976. President Gerald Ford, Sen. Charles Percy, Mayor Michael Bilandic, Sen. Adlai Stevenson, State Sen. Robert Egan. The framed letters were displayed with a flower box filled growing spearmint. Exhibited at the PoorFarm in Manawa, Wi and Krabbesholm, Denmark.
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