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29 items
2025
Sunlight Cards
A growing series of teachings from nature, illuminated by hand
2025
The Golden Line
A pictured poem on finding the flow, given our modern obsession with planning
2024
Circles Of Care
A pictured poem on scaling attention, given the many scales of reality
2022
In Fragments
A series of 21 rituals to alchemize old family patterns at High Acres Farm
2021
Electric Webb
A ritual to install a new energy grid using a network of 27 lightning transformers
2021
See Glass
A ritual to honor the primordial lake with a collection of broken fired mirrors
2021
Paper Weight
A ritual to clear the burden of my mother’s fearful dreams
2020
Notitia Sanctuary
A place of retreat at High Acres Farm, named for a Latin word meaning deep noticing
2019
High Acres Farm
A gathering place in Shelburne Vermont, dedicated to humans and nature
2018
A Silent Place
A pictographic oracle of rock art images drawn by hand in the Utah desert
2016
Give Up The Ghost
A ritual to banish the spectre of my grandfather’s alcoholism
2016
Phase Change
A ritual to forge glass in a hillside furnace using the cremated remains of my mother
2015
Network Effect
An interactive portrait of the psychological effects of Internet use on humanity
2015
Hall Of Mirrors
A ritual to arrange a set of broken fired mirrors into a rectangular mosaic
2015
Use A Hammer
A ritual to shatter and burn the reflections of nine outdated identities
2013
I Love Your Work
A portrait of the realities of those who make fantasies, exploring the lives of porn stars
2011
Cowbird
A storytelling platform and public library of human experience, open to all
2011
Balloons Of Bhutan
A portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom — using hundreds of balloons
2010
Today
A 443-day ritual of posting a photo and short story online each night before going to sleep
2009
We Feel Fine Book
A book exploring human emotions as understood through Internet data
2008
I Want You To Want Me
An interactive portrait of the search for love through online dating, for MoMA
2007
The Whale Hunt
A sequence of 3,214 images timed to match my heartbeat, taken over nine days Alaska
2007
Universe
An interactive system for generating new constellations via global news
2006
Yahoo Time Capsule
A time capsule 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
2004
10x10
An interactive mosaic of the words and pictures that define each hour, via global news
2004
Wordcount
An interactive visualization of the 88,000 most frequently used English words
2003
Sketchbooks
A set of travel journals filled with watercolor paintings, plants, insects, and other ephemera
1998
Landscapes
A set of 27 landscape paintings of the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts
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