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2024
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Circles Of Care
A principle for scaling attention — given the many scales of reality that shape our experience of life from moment to moment
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Ritual works
Embodied rituals in service to
Life Art
2015–2022
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2022
In Fragments
A series of 21 rituals to alchemize old family patterns at High Acres Farm, documented via 21 short films
2021
Electric Webb
A ritual to install a new energy grid using a network of 27 lightning transformers — part 20 of In Fragments
2021
See Glass
A ritual to honor the primordial lake with a collection of broken fired mirrors — part 19 of In Fragments
2021
Hexagram
A ritual to disperse the limitations of a pernicious land use agreement — part 17 of In Fragments
2021
Paper Weight
A ritual to clear the burden of my mother’s fearful dreams — part 16 of In Fragments
2017
A Witness To Life
A ritual to honor the closing of the Cowbird digital storytelling community — part 18 of In Fragments
2016
Give Up The Ghost
A ritual to banish the spectre of my grandfather’s alcoholism — part 15 of In Fragments
2016
Phase Change
A ritual to forge homemade glass in a hillside furnace using the cremated remains of my mother — part 12 of In Fragments
2016
Apprenticeship
A ritual to source and prepare the ingredients to forge homemade glass from scratch — part 11 of In Fragments
2016
Make Me A Vessel
A ritual to craft a funeral urn for the cremated remains of my mother — part 10 of In Fragments
2016
Space Suit
A ritual to witness the cremation of my mother two days after her death — part 9 of In Fragments
2015
Scarecrow
A ritual to rectify patterns of fear using an effigy dressed as my mother — part 8 of In Fragments
2015
Hall Of Mirrors
A ritual to arrange a set of broken fired mirrors into a rectangular mosaic — part 14 of In Fragments
2015
Use A Hammer
A ritual to shatter and burn the reflections of nine outdated identities — part 13 of In Fragments
2015
Equidistant
A ritual to collapse related phenomena into a single plane of perception — part 7 of In Fragments
2015
Process Of Elimination
A ritual to examine the particles in a pile of pulverized powder — part 5 of In Fragments
2015
Not A Single Point
A ritual to pulverize a collection of gray and white stones into powder — part 4 of In Fragments
2015
Urim And Thummim
A ritual to utilize a set of gray and white “seeing stones” — part 3 of In Fragments
2015
Linestone
A ritual to align the white veins in a collection of ancient gray stones — part 2 of In Fragments
2015
The Joyous Lake
A ritual to witness the many changing moods of a primordial body of water — part 1 of In Fragments
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Story works
Interactive storytelling projects
2007–2018
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2018
A Silent Place
A pictographic oracle of rock art images created in the Utah desert — a mirrorlike refuge from the Internet cacaphony
2013
I Love Your Work
A portrait of the realities of those who make fantasies using 10-second video clips shot every 10 minutes for 10 days
2011
Cowbird
A storytelling platform and public library of human experience with nearly 100,000 searchable stories
2011
Balloons Of Bhutan
A portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan — using hundreds of brightly colored balloons
2010
Today
A 443-day practice of making a photo and short story each day — posting them online each night before going to sleep
2008
Polaroid Project
A fractured collage of sexual desire among men and women, created in two hours at a live event in New York
2007
The Whale Hunt
A sequence of 3,214 images timed to match my heartbeat, taken over nine consecutive days in Barrow, Alaska
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Data works
Data visualization projects
2002–2015
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2015
Network Effect
An interactive (and satirical) portrait of the psychological effects of large-scale Internet use on humanity
2009
We Feel Fine Book
A book exploring human emotions as understood through Internet data, published by Simon & Schuster
2008
I Want You To Want Me
An interactive portrait of the search for love (and self) through the world of online dating, commissioned by MoMA
2007
Universe
An interactive system for generating new constellations, showing modern mythology as deduced from global news
2006
Yahoo Time Capsule
A time capsule (the world’s largest) whose contents were beamed into space as binary code using a laser
2006
We Feel Fine
An exploration of human emotion through large-scale blog analysis, via six interactive movements
2004
10x10
An interactive mosaic of the pictures and words that define the time, updated each hour by analyzing global news
2004
Wordcount
An interactive visualization of the 88,000 most frequently used English words, displayed as a very long sentence
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Design works
Identities and architecture
1998–2024
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2024
Linestone Collective
An evolving creative collective emerging from the ritual work of In Fragments at High Acres Farm
2020
The Present
An insignia showing time set free — for a trio of elegant timepieces tracking the cyclical rhythms of nature
2020
Notitia Sanctuary
A place of retreat at High Acres Farm, named for an old Latin word meaning the attentive noticing of things as they are
2019
High Acres Farm
A gathering place in Shelburne, Vermont, evolving out of its long history as a private family home
2019
The Other Farm
An imaginal future vision for the buildings and thousands of acres of land surrounding High Acres Farm
2019
Mosaic
An identity system for a design and construction company inspired by the work of Christopher Alexander
2014
Twenty Seven
An illustrated collection of phenomena related to the number ‘27’ which for many years I used as my pen name
2013
Hill House
A proposed design for a house at High Acres Farm, based on two golden rectangles at 27 degree angles to one another
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Early works
Painting and drawing
1979–2003
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2003
Sketchbooks
A set of travel journals filled with watercolor paintings, drawings, plants, insects, and other ephemera
1998
Landscapes
A set of 27 traditional plein-air landscape paintings of the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts
1998
Drawings
A set of drawings from life made during four years of study at Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts
1979
Childhood Art
A collection of artwork created in the first fifteen years of my life, much of it at St. Bernard’s School in New York City
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