
Twenty bowling pins of glass. River water. Rum. A monument to elsewhere.
Artificial Moonlight, 2025. Ten glass bottles shaped as bowling pins, sealed dark, filled with purified water from the Chicago River. The river was famously reversed in 1900 to send the city's waste downstream into the Mississippi. A quiet monument to infrastructural ambition and the tragic logic of elsewhere. The trace remains.
Artificial Sky, 2025. Ten glass bottles, handmade rum. Rum and glass and the silent architecture of the bowling pin distill a lineage of labor and intoxication. The long shadow of sugar economies. The cultivated stupor of mid-century America: white, drunken, exclusionary.