Trespass U.S.
My work deals specifically with the concept and act of trespassing. By documenting places that people go to spray and paint, or to shelter from their homelessness, I am attempting to illustrate the way that these two distinct activities at the lowest rung of society are carefully ignored.Vandal art and territorial displays decorate the places beneath infrastructure where the homeless go in order to remain invisible. Whenever the art, slogans of protest, or temporary shelters come into sight somebody is paid to cover them with grey paint or sweep them into dust.
This ancient law provides protection from trespass against persons, their possessions, and their intellectual property. Now, however the onus has become inseparable from notions of private property and ownership.
Who owns this land? Which land is being trespassed in our name?
and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass