An invasive plant has the ability to thrive and spread aggressively outside its natural range. -- “What is an Invasive Plant?," The United States National Arboretum   My convent school in Manila was founded more than seventy years ago by a French-Canadian nun who, like Moses, Joan of Arc, or many schizophrenics, had been given a [...]

Artist’s statement Ethnography: Staten Island Ferry I spent a long afternoon shuttling back and forth on the ferry between Manhattan and Staten Island and constructed this piece out of found recordings, inspired by the—oftentimes profoundly banal—commute, which assumes a radically different energy only when the ferry passes handsome Lady Liberty. As an “ethnography,” an ostensibly [...]