Buggyworks is a retrofitted commercial and residential space with a footprint extending between two red brick warehouses. Built in 1902 by the Columbus Buggy Co., the site was once a hub of carriage production in Columbus, Ohio, until the Great Flood of 1913 devastated the physical infrastructure at the same moment the rise of the automobile rendered horse-drawn carriages obsolete. The site reincarnated as the Allen Motor Co., and again as Janitrol Corp., before being redeveloped in the 1990s into the mixed-use corridor it is today.
The following drawing is an interpretation of the soil horizons, their components, contaminants, and consciousness. Anthrosols are a palimpsest, an archive of land-use and land-care. As above, so below.
The abstraction of this subgrade marked a pivotal point in my evolution as an artist, prompting me to develop new modes of mark-making to communicate beyond purely aesthetic representation.