Haverstraw, NY, 2021-2023
My obscured glimpses of Tilcon, a gravel factory at the end of my grandparents’ street, drew me in. I was interested in the texture of the mountains, the birds who made their homes in the rubble, and the machines enmeshed in expansive vines. Photographs made in 2021, explore rock extraction and the temporary reconstruction of the mountainscapes through demolition. The series was further developed and sequence with support from Makeda Best, in her course Photography and Ecology.
May 2022, I was awarded the Artistic Development Fellowship by the Office for the Arts at Harvard to continue working on this project. I extended my vision to the Hudson River which runs along side Tilcon, collecting dusty particles and runoff. I explored the Hudson River’s ability to weather, nurture, and destroy, and the foundations necessary to live alongside the evolving ecosystem.
Riverside
The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, May 2023
Interdisciplinary installation exhibited at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. Photographs printed on canvas, curated collection of river weathered materials like sea glass, driftwood, rocks, and shells, with river water circulating through the installation in rubber piping.
Lucy Jackson 