a rock trembles, ¹ touched and touching, ² in and around, moving-me, ³ everything thinking "I" ⁴ and longing. ⁵

this site documents an ongoing series of inquiries into objecthood, subjects, dreams, distinctions, and missunderstandings.

1. inter-tremor
2. schematic of the thing
3. weird essentialism
4. sexed framework of the ruling symbolics
5. desiring ~~subjects~~ objects

write to me: mary [at] land-subject.info

"Assembling Animate Data" is a beta research site and interactive archive developed as a prototype for Steven Van Wolputte's practicum on Ethnographic Fieldwork, Spring 2020

"DEAR MR. KROPELNICKI" was a public presentation about a letter my mother wrote on behalf of a small unincorporated property in West Petaluma, California, she believes should be preserved as designated Open Space. The talk performed a close reading of the letter accompanied by abstract representations of the land-subject

N E W S P E C I F I C S * was an exhibition and publication presenting material that studied a 13.62 acre land-subject in a small neighborhood on the western-most limits of the Urban Growth Boundary in Petaluma, California. Beginning in 2005, a group of neighbors teamed together to protect and preserve one of the last open spaces within city limits.

MATTERING LINES (2017)
This work collects and studies apparati of distinction (names, signs, fences, roads) in wildland-urban interfaces to think about how they interpellate subjects as welcome or unwelcome and contribute to place-making...

THE ROCK TREMBLES a series of inquiries into the rock object becoming subject, as always already "land" and never one thing

a rock trembles, ¹ touched and touching, ² in and around, moving-me, ³ everything thinking "I" ⁴ and longing. ⁵

this site documents an ongoing series of inquiries into objecthood, subjects, dreams, distinctions, and missunderstandings.

1. inter-tremor
2. schematic of the thing
3. weird essentialism
4. sexed framework of the ruling symbolics
5. desiring ~~subjects~~ objects

"DEAR MR. KROPELNICKI" was a public presentation about a letter my mother wrote on behalf of 13.62 acres of unincorporated property in West Petaluma, California, she believes should be preserved as designated Open Space. The talk performed a close reading of the letter accompanied by abstract representations of the land-subject

N E W S P E C I F I C S * was a research project that studied a 13.62 acre land-subject in a small neighborhood on the western-most limits of the Urban Growth Boundary in Petaluma, California. Beginning in 2005, a group of neighbors teamed together to protect and preserve one of the last open spaces within city limits.

This work collects and studies apparati of distinction (names, signs, fences, roads) in wildland-urban interfaces to think about how they interpellate subjects as welcome or unwelcome and contribute to place-making...

THE ROCK TREMBLES a series of inquiries into the rock object becoming subject, as always already "land" and never one thing

write to me: mary [at] land-subject.info