Underfoot

Performance, public intervention, and photographic installation

Underfoot gathers photographs from public actions made close to the ground. At civic, carceral, and communal sites, I knelt into sidewalks, streets, and broken patches of earth, pressing short questions into concrete and soil.

The project began as a participatory performance at Solitary Gardens’ Grief Garden dedicated to Herman Wallace of the Angola 3, who often said, “morality and legality do not shake hands.” Together, participants read from the garden’s library and posed a new question as a permanent installation:

“where do morality and legality diverge?”

The work expanded into the streets through temporary inscriptions placed in potholes outside the New Orleans Municipal Court and the Orleans Parish jail entrance. Repeating the phrase “and diverge…” in broken pavement, the question moved from a space of grief and gathering into sites where law, punishment, and public life meet.

The marks are positioned to be stepped over. Through photographic clusters, Underfoot holds these temporary inscriptions as evidence of attention and refusal.






Orleans Parish Criminal District Court












‘Orleans Justice Center‘, New Orleans City Jail






Grief Gardens at Solitary Gardens, New Orleans