A series of three porta potty sculptures for Bottomland, an exhibition at Sweetpass Sculpture Park in Dallas, TX that featured sculptures responding to the site of the Blackland Prairie, an endangered eco region that has been almost entirely destroyed to make way for the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. . modeled on the interior of Club Dallas, Dallas’ only gay bath house and the site of the most recent raid on a gay club in America.
Each porta potty has an identical exterior that are am amalgamation of the ordinary porta potties that are ubiquitous through Dallas and the Phillip Johnson designed JFK memorial, which sits at Dallas' center. The interiors are strange spaces that braid references to the endangered Blackland Prairie and Dallas' fading cruising architecture.
One is modeled after the interior of the Frankford Church, a church in north Dallas with a parcel of remnant Blackland on its grounds. It holds a small garden of native Blackland flowers and grasses with names that evoke a patch of cruising ground (prairie gayfeather, yellowdicks, stiff goldenrod, shame vine, top grass, switch grass, kiss me quick, cuman ragweed, etc).
Another references the interior of Club Dallas, Dallas' only gay bathhouse and the site of the most recent rain on a gay bar in America. The urinal that hangs in the porta potty is hand modeled by hand in plaster. Atop it sits a ceramic replica of a gay magazine published in Texas. On the cover a naked man in a cowboy hat bends over, text above his head reads "GET IT WHILE YOU CAN", alerting viewers to the impermanence of the prairie, the club, and any space squeezed by the strictures of late capitalism.