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Acknowledging the Gowanus Canal’s history as a tidal marsh, Constructed Ground is a habitable sculpture, an earthwork, placed on the graves of rivers. It re-consumes the industrial, through the ecological transformation of the unproductive territory, and utilizes the structure of empty buildings as a sculptural skeleton to merge with and define the interiority of Constructed Ground. Sculpture (“pure negativity: the combination of exclusions”, Rosalind Krauss’s 1979 Sculpture in the Expanded Field) is historically-bounded, speaking in symbological tongue about the death of the Gowanus Creek and its optimistic hopes for a cleaner future on its tomb, mediating between the shade of what was the Creek and former tidal marsh, and the re-consumption of the industrial.

“25 FEET Off Higgins” is a truly student organized zine publication that aims to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are unofficial, unpolished, nonbureaucratic, and off Higgins. The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet from Higgins is where students are allowed to smoke. “25 FEET Off Higgins” is where students are allowed to express themselves freely while having proximity to their base. It is a discussion from beyond Higgins; to be brought back into Higgins.