Settlement is an itinerant public art project that examines displacement and migration. It focuses on mid-twentieth century highway construction, the uses of eminent domain, and histories of immigration in Chicago. The work examined structural imbalances and buried histories through drawing, poetry, sculpture, walks, and dialogue.   

The drawings—incorporated into a free takeaway artist book (a Do-Si-Do, to be read from the perspective of the North and West side of the city), and used on drawing boards for public engagement—were based on photographs of mid-century neighborhood and park life on the West Side and North Side, as well as photographs of demolition/construction in process.

Ink and graphite on paper, 11” x 14”

Created in 2018 in as part of larger Settlement project, in collaboration with Fred Schmalz and with support of ThreeWalls’ Outside the Walls public art fellowship