2024
A design for the bridge and intersection at Lindell and Union Blvd. proposed as an alternative to the design the City of St. Louis presented in January of 2024. I designed this concept to address mobility and land use justice issues that the City failed to consider in their plan including pedestrian and bicycle safety, public transit access, green space access, food and housing.
Read more about it here.
2021 - Present
An ongoing project, #STLBRT proposes 8 simple and intuitive Bus Rapid Transit lines that form a network covering the entire City of St. Louis. #STLBRT is proposed as a solution to decades of declining public transit service and infrastructure in St. Louis and offers a unified vision that is financially feasible. It suggests that transit planning should be approached holistically and equitably. #STLBRT challenges antiquated narratives, and shows that an efficient and robust public transit system that serves everyone isn’t out of reach for STL.
Read about a North-South alternative to the proposed St. Louis MetroLink Green Line and why BRT is better than light rail for the Jefferson Ave. corridor.
2022
The Forest Park Tram plan (#STLFPT) was published on Twitter in 2022. It offers a concept for a tram line that would connect the most popular attractions in Forest Park, St. Louis. Additionally, it offers enhanced pedestrian access within the park and between the park and bordering neighborhoods and a concept to bury I-64 in a tunnel along the southern boundary of the park.
2009 - 2015
In this project, picnics are hosted at underutilized and undervalued sights throughout the city. Picnics are a simple, inclusive, and communal event that enliven the spaces in which they are hosted. The picnics provide an opportunity for engagement with these spaces in an intimate way—creating physical connections, understanding and learning about these spaces on a human scale, creating memories, and imagining new possibilities. Picnics create immediate and temporary transformations of these spaces, often located along social borders, into connectors or bridges between these communities. Reclaimed Places: Picnics presents the potential for transformation made permanent by the residue of memory. Through the experience of participating in these picnics, community members often have a much more positive view of the city that surrounds them.
2013
This video was created for the Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra and the release of their EP Revue Songs. The video features landscapes and architecture from across the City of St. Louis, focusing on streets, houses and commercial buildings that are both everyday sites and iconic to the experience of the City.
STL is an ongoing photography project documenting the changing neighborhoods of the City of St. Louis. I approach photography as both a form of research and of play— a way of observing, discovering, and learning about the world and sharing what I have found with others. These photographs of St. Louis represent my wanderings through the city, engaging with its history and values revealed through buildings, spaces, what is changed, and what is left. I’m particularly drawn to patterns, serendipitous juxtapositions, and anachronisms in the environment.
2015 - 2016
in collaboration with Matt Frederick
A campaign to draft Tishaura Jones for Mayor of the City of St. Louis, was designed to bring name recognition to someone then relatively unknown to the public. Tishaura Jones narrowly lost her bid for Mayor of St. Louis by just 888 votes.
We created all aspects of the campaign, from policy to copywriting and graphic design, to embody the values of moderate to progressive Democratic voters of St. Louis. The brand was designed to convey strength while also giving a new and hopeful impression to appeal to young and older voters alike. The logo was designed to display effectively on a variety of social media platforms as well as t-shirts, stickers and buttons, and offer versatility in the ways graphics might be incorporated.
2010
Excerpts from a walk from Busch Stadium, along Memorial Drive and the Gateway Arch, to Laclede’s Landing, St. Louis’ oldest neighborhood located on the Mississippi River. The walk explored the often difficult terrain and barriers to accessibility between these popular destinations, and provided a space for participants to consider alternative scenarios and potential solutions.
2006-2007
Through this photographic project I investigated the built environment of the Tampa Bay area. These photographs question and explore contemporary issues and characteristics of Florida and American culture such as rapid change, tourism, simulated environments, and real estate bubbles.
2006
Excepts from a four-hour dérive through La Défense, Paris. The walk explored the various terrains and spaces of this modern business district at the edge of the city.
2006
In Tampa I lived in the Westshore Palms neighborhood, located one mile west of the beach. This public beach is one of the few remaining in the city of Tampa. We embarked on a journey to the beach on foot, navigating terrain that is hostile to walking.
The walk explored the ways in which otherwise benign structures (a corporate park, a mall, a highway) are aggressive to bodies not in cars and effectively colonize public space. Participants paused to mark especially hostile boundaries, using materials found on site and we shared a picnic upon arriving at the “beach”. This walk was a collaboration with The Center For Getting Ugly as part of the “Walk, Talk, Eat, Talk Some More” project.
Participants: Nikki Pike, Alex Costantino, Steven Holland, Rosalinda Borcilla, Chelsea Goodwin
2005 - 2007
Picnics were held along I-275, a highway known for cutting through the heart of the City of Tampa. These large triangular stretches of green open space along limited access highways are well cared-for and landscaped, but underutilized. At the same time, many urban neighborhoods lack access to public parks. These picnics presented a solution, creating nearby found-parks and activating these generally lifeless spaces, taking advantage of their beauty.
