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An Incomplete Survey of Landscape Rock is a place-based project that utilizes video, sculpture, and textiles to explore the complexities of extraction economies through the lens of decorative landscape rock in Phoenix, Arizona. The work examines how questions of water use, urban heat islands, and building expansion—including luxury condos, exurban subdivisions, and semiconductor plants—intersect and collide in the American desert Southwest
I live in the american desert southwest. When I moved here 10 years ago I was struck by how present the geologic is in the urban and rural spaces.
Phoenix, specifically, is a new, large, urban city originally built in the image of other cities, with different climates, with grass. But in recent years, we have become more sensitive to water use in the desert. Grass is being slowly replaced by decorative rock as ground cover.