in 2007, worker, inc. saw a need for the documentation of everyday items existing in the American landscape and created the division “Neighborhood Residents Resources Ethnography Studies Unit.” not because these items are special or important (that does not matter), but because it is the opinion of the NRRESU that people have learned to “tune out” some of the more banal items in the landscape. the work of the NRRESU celebrates these items, bringing them to the forefront of our consciousness and gives us a glimpse of what is out there on the street, what we humans are creating, absorbing, and disseminating.

the products from the studies unit include Field Guides and Checklists, Life Maps, and Street Signs. all are parodies on our infrastructure, the way we use it, and on our human need to categorize the “precious” and “beautiful.” the NRRESU embodies a great synergy between all of the activities I participate in: the visual arts, architecture, graphic arts and socio-cultural research and analysis. Previous Field Guides and Checklists are for sale at art museum stores and events as collectibles. this work led to an award from the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in Fine Arts.