KatieHolten.FieldNotes_SARS.2009
Field Notes from Quarantine (SARS), 2009
Katie Holten
(ink on paper, 9 x 12 inches)
From "Landscapes of Quarantine," a group exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC, from March 10 - April 17, 2010.
In November 2009, Holten visited North Brother island, which lies southwest of the Bronx in the East River. Typhoid Mary was held in isolation on North Brother for more than twenty years until her death in 1938. The island’s quarantine hospital was closed soon after, and North Brother has been abandoned and off-limits to the public since the 1960s. It is now overrun by an invasive species – kudzu – and, in the spring, is the preferred breeding ground of rare Black-crowned Night-Herons.
KatieHolten.FieldNotes_SARS.2009
Field Notes from Quarantine (SARS), 2009
Katie Holten
(ink on paper, 9 x 12 inches)
From "Landscapes of Quarantine," a group exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC, from March 10 - April 17, 2010.
In November 2009, Holten visited North Brother island, which lies southwest of the Bronx in the East River. Typhoid Mary was held in isolation on North Brother for more than twenty years until her death in 1938. The island’s quarantine hospital was closed soon after, and North Brother has been abandoned and off-limits to the public since the 1960s. It is now overrun by an invasive species – kudzu – and, in the spring, is the preferred breeding ground of rare Black-crowned Night-Herons.