Marker is a body of work focused on the unintentional aesthetics of progress and the marks left behind from the systems we use to build and arrange space. Over time systems stack on top of systems and blur into one another. I am interested in this cycle of things being added and removed in succession. To organize something is to make it disappear, and I am drawn to the elements that manage to remain.
The series started with a collection of painted stones that I gathered from construction sites over the course of several years. They had been inadvertently sprayed while workers marked boundaries and then left behind when the jobs were completed. In the wake of development these stones remain as emblems of the organizational systems that displaced them. From there the series grew to include a wide range of marks used in the construction process and broader evidence of alterations, including new layers of reorganization.
