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Public Art

installations & interventions

ongoing since 2018

Cosmic Love Blanket

Large fuzzy blankets printed with my body, given as gifts to strangers.

~70 blankets now in the wild. The real art is the stranger who discovers it at a thrift store.

gift → use → donate → found art

Dig Pit

Filmed myself digging until I disappeared. Buried the footage in the same hole under plexiglass.

→ tiny looping elf

Bottomless Pit

Fake land-use permits for bottomless pits in national parks.

"the bottomless pit guy"

Noses

Ceramic noses for telephone poles.

surveillance → smelling

Telephone Booth

Free public phone booths via WiFi.

in progress
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Performance

actions & endurance

Colors

Seattle, early 2000s. Groups in coordinated colors walked the city.

I led the yellow group — everyone in chicken suits.

Clean

12 people in white masks publicly cleaned Pioneer Square.

daytime: weirdo
art walk: art

Stream

Dancing in the creek to LCD Soundsystem.

Algreens

Walgreens with missing W + Al Green music.

Wonderland Trail

~100 miles · around Mt. Rainier · 3x completed

Is hiking art? The line blurs.

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