2026
Food Prep, cast iron cauldron, bioplastic, ceramic fermentation crocks including one made from clay from White Sands Beach containing honey garlic fermenting since Fall 2023, ceramic passive cooler made with sand from White Sands Beach, ceramic dishes and utensils, found containers, vacuum-sealed bulk grains acquired at food pantries between 2023-present, temperature and humidity controlled fermentation chamber made of assorted found materials containing live koji, wood, casters, crank and solar-powered radio, handmade incense, hot plate, vacuum sealer, kettle, water carboy, and various found objects, 2026
Shelf-Stable: A Journal of Mutual Provisioning is a participatory publishing project exploring food preparedness, distributed infrastructure, and collective resilience through the form of an open-edition journal attached to shelf-stable food. Drawing from the visual language of emergency manuals, grassroots organizing, and ecstatic public pedagogy, the publication combines practical strategies for food security with reflections on mutual aid, supply chain fragility, preservation, storage, and collective survival.
Distributed through existing and widespread Little Free Library networks, the project approaches these dispersed and socially familiar structures as an informal civic infrastructure through which food, knowledge, and resources might circulate together. Cans function simultaneously as publication, food object, and public offering: a portable reserve of both nutrition and information.
Over the course of the activation, participants move through a series of collective activities including a presentation on the project’s conceptual background and research lineage, collaborative assembly of the journal objects, mapping and planning distribution routes through Little Free Libraries, neighborhood walks in small groups, and the refinement of a shared digital platform through which the publication can continue to circulate, evolve, and remain publicly accessible over time.
Shelf-Stable proposes mutual provisioning as both a practical and imaginative exercise: a way of building capacity for continuity, care, and collective endurance amid increasing instability in contemporary food systems.
photo credits Rachel Hebin Shin and Jennifer Lee
Medicine Balls Series I-V
I Dirt Soap, Tallow soap, charcoal, sifted compost, geosmin (molecule released by soil microbes when it rains), rope made from hand-dyed, salvaged silk, 2026
II Fat Feed, Black Sunflower seeds with other mixed seeds, peanut butter, coconut oil, vegetable shortening, beeswax, rope made from hand-dyed, salvaged silk, 2026
III Weed Salve, Wild Cannabis flowers extracted with alcohol infused in olive oil, beeswax, essential oil blend, 2025
IV Salt Lick, Electrolyte blend from magnesium, potassium and sea salts, blackstrap molasses, zested ginger and citrus, gum arabic, rope made from hand-dyed, salvaged silk, 2026
V Smoke Tea, Smoked Mullein, Linden flower and leaf, Marshmallow leaf, Mugwort, Rose petals, Methyl Cellulose, rope made from hand-dyed, salvaged silk, 2026
Displayed on Shaker-style collapsible rack made from Soft Maple wood, 2026
Chest Pile, Ratchet straps with weavings made from leather, silk, paracord, and hand-spun yarn made from Churro and Merino fleeces acquired from Diné shepherds from Black Mesa through the Black Mesa Solidarity Network, salvaged bicycle innertubes, hardware, artist’s collection of chests, trunks, and boxes, salvaged pallet, 2026
2025
Archive of Livable Futures, VR space taking place on a quilt made from dyed canvas and cotton drop-cloth, video documentation, 2025
Book/Bag, Accordion book made from handmade paper made from studio scraps, a collection of vessels made or altered by the artist over 10+ years from materials such as wool, bioplastic, salvaged leather, ceramics, Ivy, burnt wood in the form of a Shaker-style rack and shelf, 2025
String Figures Series I-III, Rope made from 200 yards of salvaged, hand-dyed silk, pulleys made from burnt wood including dead-fall old-growth Red Pine from Northern Minnesota, spool made from salvaged plywood, 2025 – present
2024
Another End of the World is Possible, Banners made with overdyed, salvaged quilt-top, wool felt, thread, burnt wood, cement blocks, 2024
To Light a Candle is to Cast a Shadow I, beeswax, various salvaged wax, wax candle cast from electric candle, coke (high-carbon coal product), flux, sand, nails, soot, essential oils, hurricane lamp, emergency blanket, 13”x5”x5”, 2024
To Light a Candle is to Cast a Shadow II, beeswax, various salvaged wax, wax candle cast from electric candle, coke (high-carbon coal product), glass, nails, lens, wax dye, essential oils, hurricane lamp, emergency blanket, 14”x7”x7”, 2024
Ready or Not is a participatory social practice project exploring disaster preparedness through mutual aid, collective knowledge, and everyday skills. Through workshops, conversations, objects, and practical resources, the project asks what preparedness might look like when approached collectively rather than individually, and how communities can build resilience by sharing what they already know.
