intimate strangers

This grouping titled intimate strangers includes 2 series of work that each focus on itinerant plants that have managed to grow amidst the unrepaired cracks of urban sidewalks and pavement wastelands. These plants reclaim and reinhabit the literal fractures in human infrastructure telling stories of the cyclical dynamic between life and decay. Cracks in pavement evidence the passage of time; concrete breaks down with wear and weather, opening more ground to further growth. These plants inscribe a new chapter in the material evolution of place as they assert their agency over human efforts to contain and control. The letterpress printed texts accompanying the photographs are broken apart as well, prompting a process of mending through reading.