Habit Dwells in Place, is an installation of two immersive artworks "A Place For Us"  (Ceramic WaveForm Sculptures, Field recordings, MP3 devices, and Speakers) and "On The Edge a Kind of Bridge" (Video projection on vertical blinds). Both works are about the experience of edge spaces—ecotone areas, where water, land, sea, sky, and light come together—through the senses and the various scales of interaction that occure. They grew out of a wish to dwell better through cultivated habits that would help me be more actively present and to find my place. 

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I live within the lands of the Lenape and their relatives between the Pine Barrens (a vast forest in the southern part of New Jersey) and the Atlantic Ocean. Present-day New Jersey is a complex mixture of habitats: coasts, estuaries, river basins, geological striations, and the edge of swamps abutting high population towns. My experience of New Jersey’s habitats has impacted my belief that contradictions, contrasts, and the sharing of stories, leads to a better, more interesting existence. 

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In his essay “Building, Dwelling, Thinking,”Heidegger, writes that to dwell is to be fully present by uniting the act of caring (for place/beings/things) with the act of constructing, while being mindful of the nature of the place, beings, and things with which one is co-habiting. He states that dwelling is the work of the everyday or the habitual act of “being on the earth."