Corn Macabre, 2012 Candy corn, royal icing, piping gel and fondant
The beauty and diversity of corn varieties reflects the cultures that cultivate them. What do we make of a culture whose dominant corn variety is genetically engineered and unfit for human consumption until it’s processed into a food sweetener?
TUB Park, detail. Ink and watercolor. 11 x 17
Husk‘s vision for the show Brooklyn Utopias is a unique park of public baths and innovative play equipment that can be enjoyed by Brooklynites of all ages. The adult-only hot tubs in the park are constructed from re-purposed rooftop water towers, a classic Brooklyn icon. They operate on an ingeniously sustainable system that harvests rainwater. The water is heated by compost and pumped through the system by children’s energy — generated on state of the art play equipment. Read more…
Hand-drawn, original design printed on a 10 paper cup. A new look for an old classic.
While images of male homosexuality from ancient Greece are not rare there is only one surviving Attic vase that depicts female homosexuality. Here’s my take on the classic NYC coffee cup and the long history of lesbians “hiding” in plain site. Read more…
Animated short film. Huck and his dog Ginger float through the history of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal and back again. Music by Andru Bemis.
A group of bourgeois Italians idle away the day on a yacht in New York Harbor. They stop for a short excursion on Governors Island where one of them mysteriously disappears. In Italian with English subtitles.
Maize Field garden, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Summer 2010.
The Maize Field gardens were planted with corn varieties that are part of the heritage of the Lenape and Haudenosaunee from this region. The gardens were located in Boerum Hill and Canarsie, Brooklyn on sites that are documented as 17th Century Indian maize-land.
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