Camoufleur
Camouflage incorporating local plants as dye or subject matter to explore politics, health, and the environment.
DBHP was conceived in 2017 in response to Seattle’s growing housing crisis. The original project plan was to create a large camouflage map of the DBHP, worker subsidized housing built for people working at Boeing during World War II. This camouflage would be sited at a large parking lot at the intersection of Michigan and Marginal Way and photographed by drone in connection with a previous work I completed about the Manzanar internment camp. Due to changing drone laws (being near King County/ Boeing Airport creates fluctuating limitations on drone usage) and the development of the parking lot for Amazon distribution, the project changed.
Although this work now lives as a protest in a storage box, the message has hopefully not changed or diminished. This is still a call to our Mayor and City Council to be inspired/ humbled by what Seattle was able to do in 1943 and acknowledge that affordable housing for the working class can be built.
