““On one of my walks into the site during the drawing I had an epiphany about something that has been in front of me for a long time. The process of “ground-drawing” is my work and a lens for looking at my past and future work. Ignoring time, I can see my completed works as small marks, pieces of “rubble” marks that are part of one drawing. Sometimes I make this rubble, sometimes I find it, but I always walk it, sometimes solo and sometimes with and in connection with others.””
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Jarrod Beck used his time in residence to create a large scale “ground-drawing” on the Superfund site.  He gathered rubble from the sorting piles and walked them out into the field, piece by piece- in a meditative procession. Beck also sourced aluminum scraps from the sorting piles and using a small crucible he melted down the metal and poured it into wooden forms. Those aluminum castings also became part of the drawing. The drawing took the form of a series of broken rooms, ruins drawn with the chunks of the deconstructed buildings that he drew with on the site. Stretching from the barn to the waterfront, the ruins evolved into a series of archaic forms and symbols.