A 4 minute excerpt from a longer film about Utopia Press, filmed in 2020 in the original Fruitlands Farmhouse and in the forest trails of the Nashua River Valley, with the camera work and editing of Sue Murad.
Utopia Press takes the form of a mobile outsized letterpress studio. Transported in a backpack with a ladder frame, the project is designed for collective use. We each carry parts of the pack out into the forest, stop and engage in meditative prompts for imagining the future, and then collectively write a text that we print on a 3’ x 30’ banner, which we then hang from the trees in the forest.

A brief film about Dear Harbor Radio, at once a bike-pulled mobile radio station, a writing and recording studio, and a series of public interventions that took place in 2019-20 in New Bedford, Boston, and Lowell, MA. The project takes the form of a mobile letter writing and recording station where participants were invited to write and record love letters to other-than-human species. We activated the cart on the patio of a whaling museum, at a street art festival, as part of a fundraiser for a local bird advocacy organization, on a boat cruise across the New Bedford harbor, and in multiple university galleries and classroom settings.

A brief film about Carbon Farm, a series of rooftop gardens created in collaboration with PhD student Sarabeth Buckley and Professor Nathan Phillips as part of an artist residency at Boston University’s Department of Earth and the Environment in 2017-19. The science experiment was to measure the CO2 fertilization effect using waste CO2 from human breath exhaled out through building HVAC vent system and into spinach plants. This project points to a simple act—both what to do with the hot air produced by academia, and to take the endless sea of empty black rooftops and create small rooftop gardens drawing on the vented CO2.