The Mojave Project is a transmedia documentary and curatorial project exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert. The Mojave Project reconsiders and establishes multiple ways to interpret this unique and complex landscape through the association and connection of seemingly unrelated sites, themes and subjects, thus creating a speculative and immersive experience for our audience. Begun in late 2014, The Mojave Project is an ongoing, multi-year endeavor.

The Mojave Project explores the following themes: Desert as Wasteland, Geological Time vs. Human Time, Sacrifice and Exploitation, Danger and Consequence, Space and Perception, Mobility and Movement, Desert as Staging Ground, Transformation and Reinvention.

The Mojave Project materializes over time through deep research and direct field inquiry through interviews, reportage and personal journaling supported with photography, audio and video documentation. Field Dispatches are made available to the public at mojaveproject.org and KCET Artbound, our publishing partner. Installments include those of notable guest contributors. A program of public field trip experiences and satellite events explores the diverse communities and sites of the Mojave Desert. Ultimately, The Mojave Project aims to create a comprehensive transmedia repository of knowledge relating to the contemporary Mojave Desert.

To date, the project has been exhibited at the University of Nevada’s Barrick Museum of Art in 2022; at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) during the fall of 2018 with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellowship program; and at MOAH (Museum of Art & History) in Lancaster, California, during the spring of 2017. Each exhibition included public programming.

As project director and primary content creator, I am interested in developing continued exhibition and publishing partnerships both nationally and internationally to further the reach of this project, which is ever so important because the Mojave Desert, a unique and complex collection of desert ecosystems and diverse human inhabitants, is ground zero for massive utility-scale “green” energy projects that may forever alter this iconic and largely misunderstood arid landscape.