Goal: recast people’s experience of the quarry by its found conditions while transforming it into habitable space and mitigating mining issues. 

Tomkins Cove is one of a network of abandoned stone quarries in the Hudson Valley. Opposing its owner’s reclamation that could bring enormous environmental harm to the Hudson River area, the studio proposed an artists’ residency program inside the quarry.

By casting shells on the waste piles in Tomkins Quarry, my project creates a new concrete landscape that hosts a short-term residency for musicians, dancers, and other performing artists.