Atlas Minor • Works

Truly the Last Days

A mixtape for the final hours of a very strange decade.

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Reverberated mixtape | 80 minutes

Light the Barricades

The ancient I Ching goes electric in this series of installations across Los Angeles for the exhibit Walls: Defend, Divide, and the Divine.

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Annenberg Space for Photography
Los Angeles, 2019

A Monument for the Anxious and Hopeful

This installation invites visitors to share their anxieties and desires—and offers a widescreen portrait of the American mood.

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Rubin Museum of Art
New York, 2018

Grief Is a Beast That Will Never Be Tamed

A public meditation on loss and invites passersby to share the rituals, beliefs, and texts which have provided solace.

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Lakkos Residency
Heraklion, Greece, 2017

The Atlas of Tomorrow

Drawing upon the mountains and fires of the I Ching, I wrote sixty-four fables for an interactive mural that invites passersby to contemplate a dilemma in their lives.

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Mural Arts Program
Philadelphia, 2016

American Decay

Static and romance among the ruins. Reverberated songs, AM radio chatter, and looping vinyl crackle. Recorded between 2009 and 2014, these are soundtracks for long drives, cheap motels, and late nights.

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Five Track EP | 45 minutes

Photographs

Night Stations

An ongoing series dedicated to the beauty of the midnight interstate, the pump islands and motor lodges glowing on the horizon like sanctuaries from the chaos of the three o’clock in the morning mind.

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Books

The Road to Somewhere

“This remarkable and utterly original memoir heralds the arrival of a new and important American voice.”

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W. W. Norton, 416 pages

Books

The Manufactured History of Indianapolis

“The Manufactured History of Indianapolis reminds readers that histories are not always just made. Sometimes they are made up.”

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We Are City, 116 pages

Installations

She Dreamed of a Place Called Fat City

A collaboration with Candy Chang that explores the possibilities of deeper storytelling in public space.

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New Orleans, 2015

Installations

Love Destroys Time

A public art installation in an abandoned apartment complex. Inspired by the true story of a blind woman who once lived here, Candy Chang and I developed a cinematic fable about lost love.

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Exhibit Be
New Orleans, 2014

Broadcasts

Chaos Is Your New Lady

A dusty ballad plays from an old radio in an alley but the machines can’t find it. A blurry sequence of songs starring the Ronettes, Autechre, Suicide, and more.

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Vintage Ambient | 48 Minutes

Installations

The Bureau of Manufactured History

Inspired by the methodology of Surrealism and the madness of Dada, the Bureau of Manufactured History works to uncover the unconscious content of the city.

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We Are City
Indianapolis, 2013

Broadcasts

Midnight on Dauphine

Aimed squarely at the midnight hour, this installment is best enjoyed on a porch or fire escape. Starring Vangelis, Al Green, Black Sabbath, The Cranes, and lots of reverb.

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Truly the Last Days

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Reverberated mixtape | 80 minutes

Installations

Light the Barricades

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Annenberg Space for Photography Los Angeles, 2019

Installations

A Monument for the Anxious and Hopeful

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Rubin Museum of Art New York, 2018

Installations

Grief Is a Beast That Will Never Be Tamed

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Lakkos Residency Heraklion, Greece, 2017

Installations

The Atlas of Tomorrow

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Mural Arts Program Philadelphia, 2016

Broadcasts

American Decay

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Five Track EP | 45 minutes

Photographs

Night Stations

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Books

The Road to Somewhere

Like this:

W. W. Norton, 416 pages

Books

The Manufactured History of Indianapolis

Like this:

We Are City, 116 pages

Installations

She Dreamed of a Place Called Fat City

Like this:

New Orleans, 2015

Installations

Love Destroys Time

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Exhibit Be New Orleans, 2014

Broadcasts

Chaos Is Your New Lady

Like this:

Vintage Ambient | 48 Minutes

Installations

The Bureau of Manufactured History

Like this:

We Are City Indianapolis, 2013

Broadcasts

Midnight on Dauphine

Like this:

Annenberg Space for Photography
Los Angeles, 2019

Rubin Museum of Art
New York, 2018

Lakkos Residency
Heraklion, Greece, 2017

Mural Arts Program
Philadelphia, 2016

Exhibit Be
New Orleans, 2014

We Are City
Indianapolis, 2013