WASTESCAPES
ARTIFACTS FROM A SOLO PANDEMIC PRACTICE
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Wastescapes explores how we partner with the natural world and the spaces we create, inhabit, and neglect across her terrain. This work is a ritual and a kind of ceremonial practice, a practice in witnessing the weight of waste, mourning abandonment, communing with the wild, and healing in the wake of decay. It centers empathy and reciprocity, and invites us to be in relationship with our more-than-human world.
Book of images and journal entries on display at the Tabor Art Gallery September 3rd through October 18th 2024.
Images printed on glass on display and for sale at the Hilltown Open Studio Tour on September 30th and October 1st, 2023.
COLLABORATOR
Nick Haas is a Lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard. He is currently stationed in Philadelphia, where he is pursuing a master’s degree in Joint Professional Military Education through the Naval War College. As part of his active duty service, Nick also serves as a Japanese interpreter, most recently on board the CGC MELLON and CGC OLIVER HENRY. Prior to joining the Coast Guard, Nick was the owner and operator of Singapore's only American dive-bar-meets-karaoke joint, Skinny’s Lounge. Nick is also passionate about serving the local community outside his work obligations. He’s spent many years as a volunteer fireman and is an associate board member on the William Penn Foundation. While he has not professionally pursued it, Nick has a lifelong love for film and photography. He studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy and photography at Bennington College, where he received his B.A. in 2010.
photographs and film stills by Marie and Nick Haas