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    • 2025
      The Golden Line
      On finding the flow — following feedback from life without becoming too attached to plans
    • 2024
      Circles Of Care
      On scaling attention — given the many scales of reality that shape our experience of life
    • 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
      Paper Weight
      A ritual to clear the burden of my mother’s fearful dreams — part 16 of In Fragments
    • 2020
      Notitia Sanctuary
      A place of retreat at High Acres Farm, named for an old Latin word meaning deep noticing
    • 2019
      High Acres Farm
      A gathering place in Shelburne, Vermont, evolving out of its long history as a private family home
    • 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
    • 2015
      Network Effect
      An interactive portrait of the psychological effects of large-scale Internet use on humanity
    • 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      A ritual to shatter and burn the reflections of nine outdated identities — part 13 of In Fragments
    • 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
    • 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
      The Whale Hunt
      A sequence of 3,214 images timed to match my heartbeat, taken over nine consecutive days in Barrow, Alaska
    • 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
    • 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
    • 1979
      Early Art
      A collection of work 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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