Anticipation, for the Bull
 2025
wide format inkjet prints
 

A helicopter fell from our pockets to fertilize the soil
    
           In 1991, construction workers were preparing to bore the grounds in Lower Manhattan with the goal of erecting a Federal Government office building. Unbeknownst to them, or any of the constituents responsible for the build, beneath their tons of machinery lied a burial plot. A team of archeologists would later confirm that they had uncovered a sacred site, having housed the remains of over 400 free and enslaved Africans, as well as over 500 artifacts from the 17th and 18th century. Deemed one of the most significant archeological finds of the 20th century, it would lead me to consider the Bull. The Bull, in question from the title, refers to the stripped down model of the Caterpillar D7 Bulldozer, known for its ample allocation at construction sites, as well as the flattening of cemetaries in times of war and apartheid. In conjunction with the series, Beneath the Emboldened, a body that pertains primarily to the water grave, Anticipation, for the Bull attempts to tease apart how, why, and if its possible for present day scholars, archeologists, biologists, morticians, historians, climatologists, educators, and artists to forewarn future societies of our mass graves accumulated from genocide and nuclear waste that are intended to be buried, but must ultimately arise.