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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A ritual to shatter and burn the reflections of nine outdated identities — part 13 of In Fragments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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