A couple years back me and @audrey_snyder took a deep dive into New York City’s waste export complex. We jumped off from @freshkillspark Field R/D Residency to connect the dots between landfills, incinerators, parks, and prisons that contain and metabolize the spread of NYCs waste all around the US. I wrote about our project “Wastestreaming” for @archleague ⠀ which you can now check out via the link-in-bio thing. Here’s a bit about the project from the editors at #urbomnibus below:⠀ ⠀ “New York City’s infamous Fresh Kills landfill stopped receiving garbage 18 years ago, and an enormous public park is slowly rising in its place — a process we’ve been documenting on Urban Omnibus. But against the backdrop of the site’s return to leisure and nature, where does all the garbage go? A steady stream of waste — commercial and domestic — flows out of the city every day. Researchers have tracked the movement of trash across the US, revealing just how many miles it can travel, but we know less about the sites our discards shape along the way, and the places where they are finally buried or burned. Artists Joe Riley and Audrey Snyder asked what kind of landscapes grow in Fresh Kills’ shadow. As part of the park’s Field R/D program, they identified almost 100 sites through which New York City’s municipal solid waste moves, from local transfer stations to rural parks and prisons far beyond city limits. With a spreadsheet and camera, they traveled the city’s waste stream, documenting a system that thrives on low visibility to maintain a regime of disposability.”⠀ (at Freshkills Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3IVLk_l4jQ/?igshid=ixbakbucx1x0