Camp Site stages a year-long collapse of leisure, shelter, and human order. A complete campsite is slowly pulled into a hole, transforming a familiar scene of recreation into a durational image of loss, gravity, and inevitability. The work asks what human rituals of comfort and escape mean when set against geological or cosmic time. Camping is often imagined as a return to nature, yet it is also a fragile construction: a temporary domestic order placed inside a world far larger and less knowable than ourselves. As the site is steadily consumed, Camp Site turns recreation into a meditation on impermanence, scale, and the uneasy position of human life within forces that vastly exceed it.
A campsite is pulled into a hole in the ground over the course of a year. Shown at The Wassaic Project.
