I am an artist and designer working across disciplines as needed, most often in landscape architecture, sculpture/installation, social practice, and performance. I believe in art as an operational force, and with it I seek to target and transmute the subterranean paradigms that manifest the horrors of our time. I do this through truth-telling realities and creating vessels for their feeling, breaking the grip of dominant cultural norms through calling attention to them, transgressing them, and providing care to where they wound; and creating cultural alternatives (places, experiences, artifacts, actions) that reconfigure pre-existing, recognizable cultural formats into constructions built with life-affirming, liberatory values that allow for their experience and expression at the scale of the collective.

I grew up in New Jersey, between the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers. From childhood, I have been a student of the area’s land and its colonial legacy of urbanization and pollution. I am from Catholic Italian-American and immigrant Croatian-Istrian communities, and have lived much of my life in the New York City metropolitan area. I am trained as a landscape architect, and work and teach within and beyond the discipline.

I am ½ of the collective Nocturnal Medicine and practice landscape design under the name Land of the Living.