RU House Open Studios

Sunday May 31, 2026
12:00 – 5:00pm (House opens at 11:00 AM)

Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map)
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During my residency, I worked in conversation with Governors Island’s architecture, treating walls, surfaces, and unobserved details as collaborators rather than backdrops. Through rubbings, I approached the built environment as an archive, using touch and transfer to excavate traces of time embedded in the island’s structures.

I became especially drawn to cracks in walls. What first appeared as signs of wear gradually became something else: abstract entry points, portals, openings into imagined histories and alternative narratives. These fissures offered a way of thinking about architecture as porous and alive, shaped by cycles of occupation, weathering, repair, and transformation.

The works that emerged move between documentation and abstraction, collecting impressions of surfaces while remaining open to speculation. They are records of contact between body and site, past and present, material and memory.

RU Governors Island: Exquisite Landscape Mural Workshop

Residency Unlimited at Governors Island is presenting my Exquisite Landscape Mural Workshop. It is based on the Surrealist game the Exquisite Corpse which utilizes collaborative drawing assemblage to create improvised fantastical compositions. Participants are divided into groups to fill in sections of the mural based on continued lines from the previous group. They are also given smaller sheets to practice with each other and take home. No prior experience is necessary and all materials are provided.

Sunday May 31, 2026 | 2:00 – 4:00pm

Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map)
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Free Workshop

Limited to 12 participants. RSVP required.

Grounding and Automatic Drawing at Governors Island

Halloween Sunday was a magical day to connect and draw with the earth.

Thank you to everyone who was part of Sympoietica, specially @sholehasgary for linking us with sonic atmosphere and @e.connolly123 for the videos and pics, @governorsisland, @flux_factory, #CityArtistCorps, @nyfacurrent, @NYCulture, @madein_ny, and @queenstheatre.

Sympoietica Performance

Join me for a grounding meditation and automatic drawing event on Saturday, October 31, from 2-3pm @governorsisland with soundscape by the amazing @sholehasgary.

Sympoietica is a participatory performance that creates a space of solace, recuperation, and creative expression through our relationship to the earth and its multi-species inhabitants. The audience is invited to participate in a guided soundscape, movement, and reflection exercise that connects them to Governors Island’s biodiversity and history while expressing their associations through automatic drawing. The performance combines the connective practice of earthing, the Surrealist technique of automatic drawing, and feminist theorist Donna Haraway’s concept of sympoiesis or "making-with.” Through sound, movement, and reflection, the performance generates a collaboration between bodies, place, and other living things that center systems of care, embodied knowledge, and collective well-being. Sympoietica is made possible by the New York Foundation for the Arts’ #CityArtistCorps Grants. Special thanks to @flux_factory, @nyfacurrent, @NYCulture, @madein_ny, and @queenstheatre.