Eye of Water
Eye of Water is an ongoing investigation into the natural histories and social ecologies in an around Syracuse, New York. Since 2022, the artist returns to my home region for field work, writing, and archival research exploring themes of psychogeography, Haudenosaunee history, migration, and diaspora through the dialectic between 'arrival' and 'origin'. The project will be published as an artist's book by Art Metropole, with an accompanying fragrance multiple by Liza Pittard.
Poems and photos from the collection are published as an eight-panel fold-out zine (80 lbs 11x17 in matte finish paper). The zine features a collage of 100+ overlapping map segments of Syracuse, NY and neighbouring regions where the artist conducted field work.
The forthcoming full-length artist’s book will be published by Art Metropole with the support of Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.
Eye of Water, alongside adjacent research reflections, is available in a series of posts on the artist’s Substack:
- Painting with the Camera, Sounding with the Pen (20 July, 2023)
- The Ground is Full of Ghosts (28 August, 2023)
- A Brief (Personal) History of Onondaga Lake (10 September, 2023)
- Source Waters in Home Lands (13 September, 2023)
Purchase a copy here:
Stockists: Quimby’s Chicago.
Scanned images of Eye of Water available below.
