A photographic meditation on city peripheries by lens-based artist and educator Morgan Mueller. Mueller’s work explores the relationships between people, non-humans, and the landscapes that business and infrastructure depart behind. Drawn to peripheral or altered websites—locations that exist on the fringe of cities—Mueller seems to be at how materials traces reveal broader tales of transformation, resilience, and entanglement. His objective is to not create definitive accounts however to reframe how these areas are seen.
Set alongside the city waterways round New York Metropolis and the New Jersey Meadowlands, “Edgelands” follows the traces of life by every seemingly deserted locale because the distinctions between pure and constructed, wild and managed, dissolve. What emerges is a portrait of locations in flux: postindustrial wetlands, forgotten shorelines, and infrastructural corridors the place decay and renewal coexist. The William Carlos Williams’ quote—”No concepts however in issues”—was a guiding concept for the venture.
