images from artist Maria Thereza Alves's "Seeds of Change: New York, a Botany of Colonization." Elizabeth Rodini referenced these "ballast gardens" in her presentation "Active Objects: Rethinking Mobility, Geography, and the Museum."
Dispatches from the Library is a diary in words and images from my artist residency at the Bard Graduate Center Library in New York City. Bard Graduate Center is a graduate research institute which explores new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture.