Completed 2018

Created for Susy Bielak and Fred Schmalz

Settlement is an itinerant public art project that examines displacement and migration. It focuses on mid-twentieth century highway construction, the uses of eminent domain, and histories of immigration in Chicago. The installation evoked Chicago’s history of human and material displacement, specifically, how remains of over 800 buildings were hauled from the West Side of the city to extend the northernmost part of Lakeshore Drive and the park adjacent to it. The fiberglass sculptures are modeled after homes, businesses, and sites of worship that had been seized by eminent domain and razed on the West Side.