AMERICAN REMEDIATION

2026, video
upcoming

American Remediation traces a decaying U.S. government film — shot in Arizona, distributed across the Global South, now at the National Archives — through an Indigenous film archive in Oaxaca and back to Arizona in new 16mm, where the landscape it mythologized is now worked by those whose displacement it helped engineer. Ripped, copied, and aged, the image becomes artifact rather than record.

AMERICAN EMULSION

2026, video installation

In 1949, President Harry Truman announced four foreign policy goals to counter communism in Europe and the Global South. Alongside the vast transformation of rural territory, the U.S. screened images of development drawn from its own hinterland. Exposed onto 16mm, American landscapes emulsify on American acetate and are projected onto surfaces across the globe, where chemical compounds become alchemical transformations of territory, environment, and nature. Against the pastoral backdrop of a German barn, American Emulsion revisits the images through which U.S. soft power remade the German countryside, processes that continue to shape and destabilize it.

FIELD ARCHIVE

2026, installation, curatorial

Field Archive: Landscape Architecture in Process presents student work from the Master of Landscape Architecture program as an evolving collective record of inquiry — an archive of the ground defined through site and section, a horizontal register along which shared authorship foregrounds landscape as a field condition shaped by research, collaboration, and material investigation. The landscape is archived through its many objects and mediums of inquiry: the drawings, models, mappings, images, and full-scale studies that apprehend landscape as a bounded form constantly conditioned by boundless ecological, infrastructural, and cultural processes.

AMERICAN DISORIENTATION

2024, pamphlet

American Disorientation presents a collective panoramic of the American landscape under disorientation, a series of views that begins to piece together the methodologies, strategies, and processes through which the contemporary American landscape is envisioned, engaged, and produced.

FEATURING
Abra Lee, Ben Balcom, DEGROWNYC, Dept, Marilyn Machado Mosquera, Mike Gibisser, Neyran Turan, Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana, Roberto Ransom Ruiz, Tania Tovar Torres, and Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski of WAI Think Tank

MEMORY LOSS

2024, panoramic video installation

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TRACKING ARIZONA

2023, video

In the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, the United States acquired a large tract of land along the Mexican-American border through the Gadsden Purchase of 1854. Flatter and providing a more direct route for the transcontinental railroad, the hinterlands are continuously reconstructed along a continental tracking shot. A vast and ecologically diverse arid landscape is flattened along shifting the planes of fore-, middle-, and background, a picturesque of the American southwest.

OTHER

Tracking Across the American Desert:
Translations of the American Landscape to the Helmand Valley and Back, JAE 77.2

2023, essay

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A MONUMENT TO INTERIORITY FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

2020, landscape architecture

A Picturesque for the Third Ecology

2023, presentation for MoMA and the Icelandic University of the Arts

TEACHING

LAR 704 - PARK
FOURTH SEMESTER CORE LANDSCAPE STUDIO
2025

PRATT MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

ARCH 650 - SITE UNSEEN
VERTICAL ELECTIVE STUDIO
SPRING 2024

UWM

UWM
ARCH 533 - GOING ON TOUR: SITE-SEEING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
THEORY AND REPRESENTATION SEMINAR FALL 2023

Jake Kennedy

Bennett Westling

Anika Gingle