Meadowlands was an installation built from woodcuts, porcelain, monotypes, and stoneware, depicting an idea for a utopian future of the Meadowlands in New Jersey, a system of wetlands just west of New York City notorious for its history of landfill and pollution. It focuses around an artificial interior space, from which viewers could look through a window out onto a simulated landscape of high-rise buildings on stilts above the marshes, the reclaimed landfills, and the city beyond. I wanted to depict the Meadowlands as a place that has potential to sustain both human infrastructure and natural habitats, swapping its current parking lots and malls for housing with experimental forms. A model of the apartment building being simulated is also included along a self-portrait between my bicycle and a car.
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