Examine the work
Public assemblies
Visual inquiry and testimony

Art as active civic inquiry

Documenting grassroots labor, environmental struggle, and human dignity across the Midwest through 35mm film negatives, hand-pressed linocuts, and neighborhood assemblies.

Three operational fronts

Instruments of testimony

Every project operates across field observation, tactile production, and open civic dialogue to sustain collective memory.

Fieldwork
Material
Civic

Documentary archive

Tactile print editions

Grassroots dialogues

Investigative 35mm photographic series and field audio recordings documenting organized labor, environmental defense, and border solidarity.

Hand-pulled relief linocuts and darkroom silver gelatin proofs produced in numbered runs on unbleached rag paper.

Facilitated community assemblies hosted in union halls and library basements to deliberate accountability and human rights.

Moral commitment

We record resilience to honor human dignity and sustain collective memory.

Art fails when it settles for decorative detachment. Real peace requires an unvarnished reckoning with labor history, equity, and the living testimony of grassroots resistance.

Current archives

Recent field dispatches

Edition 04: Transit Walkout

Fifty signed linocut proofs printed on Japanese Kozo fiber commemorating wildcat transit strikes. Proceeds support independent legal observer funds.

The Calumet River Corridor

A three-year investigative survey documenting industrial runoff, neighborhood water testing committees, and metallurgical defense on the Chicago border.

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Join the winter assembly

Public registrations are open for the upcoming forum on community testimony and neighborhood archives in Chicago.