Mercuria V.1 Ch.4: Faulty Stars is out!

A few years ago I had the pleasure of writing a short essay about Mercury Retrograde for Conveyor Edition’s experimental publication, Mercuria. The essay is out now, titled Faulty Stars, and features the artwork of Hazel Eckert, Amy Friend, Brett Henrikson, Daniel Hojnacki, Lisa Kereszi, Marta Lee, Marissa Long, and E.C. Musgrave alongside a selection of images I made from the Accidents folder at the NYPL Picture Collection. This is the fourth chapter of Mercuria which will wrap up with a final chapter from Christina Labey. More info available here: https://www.conveyor.studio/shop/p/mercuria-v1-ch4

A Tree Grows in Queens on Book Bliss

A lovely review of A Tree Grows in Queens is included in Contemporary Lynx’s Book Bliss column. Many thanks to Karolina Slup for her sensitive, insightful response to the book!

Read Book Bliss : What The Land Carries here: https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/book-bliss-what-the-land-carries

La vie is like that up on Good

Happy to have an interview about my book, La vie is like that, published on Good.is

I spoke with Elyssa Goodman about thinking and writing about dementia. Many thanks to Elyssa for her insightful, compassionate questions about the project.

You can read the piece here: https://www.good.is/how-artist-magali-duzant-developed-an-art-book-to-think-about-dementia-and-honor-her-fathers-life

This Old Tree - Tree Story Shorts IV

Very excited to share that an excerpt from A Tree Grows in Queens is included in the latest episode, Tree Story Shorts Vol IV of the great podcast This Old Tree. I read from the chapter on The Queens Giant, an old growth tulip tree. Many thanks to Doug Still for including me in the episode! You can listen to it here:

https://www.thisoldtree.show/episode-details/tree-story-shorts-iv#/

I highly recommend listening to all the other episodes. There are great stories about Bartram’s Franklin Tree, a tree that owns itself, the Emancipation Oak, the Harlem Tree of Hope, and many many more!

Support Systems at Longwood Art Gallery

January 22nd is the opening of Support Systems, a group exhibition curated by Christina Freeman at Longwood Art Gallery in the Bronx. I’m excited to have an installation of The Dry Garden included. The exhibit runs through February 25th. More info at the following link: https://www.bronxarts.org/programs/connector/longwood-art-project/longwood-art-gallery

Election Uncertainty and an image from The Moon & Stars on NY Times Opinion

I was hoping to post this yesterday but here we are and this feels even more timely and depressingly helpful. An image from The Moon & Stars Can Be Yours was used for Dr. Gary Greenberg’s essay for the NY Times Opinion section. Many thanks to Jessie Wender at the New York Times.

Link here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/opinion/uncertainty.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Take care during this difficult week and beyond.

The Nature of Cities feature, excerpt from A Tree Grows in Queens

An excerpt from A Tree Grows in Queens was published this week on the website The Nature of Cities. The excerpt pulls from two chapters, Pink Dogwood and American Elm, and includes an introduction to the origins of the project. The piece can be read at the following link: https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2024/10/30/a-tree-grows-in-queens/

Group show - Community Care in NYC

Happy to have work from my collaborative project with Christina Labey, The Library as a Garden, on view in this upcoming exhibition at the Lower Eastside Girls Club Gallery. The show, Community Care: Stewarding Your Neighborhood, is organized by the Lower East Side Ecology Center and opens on September 6th.

Press Print: Risograph Photobooks @ Penumbra Foundation, July 25 - November 1, 2024

Very excited to have La vie is like that included in the exhibition Press Print : Risograph Photobooks opening this week at Penumbra Foundation. If you’re in NY do stop by! The show runs through November 1st. More details at: https://www.penumbrafoundation.org/press-print