Ongoing Project

My creative work attempts to combine a daily writing practice with Oulipian techniques to create an archive of place and the forces of everyday apocalypse (rising tides, algorithms, microplastics) which have come to define modern life.

In 2023, during the hottest summer in Florida history, I wrote ninety poems whose structure mimicked the rise and fall of the water levels at the Miami Harbor entrance each day, where the number of words in each line was determined by the tidal predictions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

I am currently working on a second version of this project, based on data collected in the summer of 2025 at the Deering Estate. In the face of overwhelming societal grief, it has been gratifying to use hard numerical data to create a more subjective bank of memory.

(PICTURED: me, constructing the labyrinth from which I will hopefully eventually escape…

shirt text, from a witch’s grave in Illinois:

“LOOK AT ME AS I PASS BY. AS YOU ARE NOW SO ONCE WAS I. AS I AM NOW SO YOU MUST BE. PREPARE FOR DEATH AND FOLLOW ME.”)

With the support of an Oolite Arts’ Cinematic Arts Award, I am also currently working on an experimental film set in my family’s surf-and-skate shop in Coconut Grove, shot entirely on 16mm with a Bolex camera following a traditional film-to-film workflow. The film will integrate some text from both tide poem series.