Having grown up within a contaminated community, I know the complicated relationship between contamination/site/archive/health/placemaking and identity shaping. For this artist in residency I engaged with New Bedford residents on a workshop entitled ‘Ground-Truthing’ whereby we collectively annotate an official map with their view from the inside and thus I learn their cognitive mapping of the superfund site. Pictured here are my own mixed-media pieces that explore the relationship between the streetlights, the National Park, and the archives of the Superfund Site at the New Bedford Public Library.

Dye, printouts, adhesive, pencil, watercolor, gouache, mounted on paper mounted on board. 46 1/4" w x 23 1/2" h x 2 1/2" d