2023-2026
WRITING
An essay on waste, reclamation, and settler aesthetics in Newtown Odyssey.
Following my review (see below) of Newtown Odyssey: An open-air opera for, about, and on a creek, I conducted interviews with the opera’s composer and librettist. Those interviews informed my fortchoming article “Citizen Scientist 1 Returns,” which explores the character Citizen Scientist 1 as a paranoid figure of settler colonization. Newtown Odyssey, I argue, illustrates the intimate connections between waste and reclamation, both of which may function under settler colonialism as territorial capture. Forthcoming Spring 2027 in LA+: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture.
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