This is a selection of projects that did not fit into other categories ranging from the years 2006-2010.

I have been working with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things since 2005, and actually visited Baltimore for the first time to perform with the Institute at the 2005 Transmodern Festival. From the Institute's website:
The Institute for Infinitely Small Things conducts creative, participatory research that aims to temporarily transform public spaces and instigate dialogue about democracy, spatial justice and everyday life. The Institute’s projects use performance, conversation and unexpected interventions to investigate social and political “tiny things”. Based mostly in Boston, MA, and occasionally under the leadership of kanarinka, James Manning, Jaimes Mayhew, Forest Purnell or Nicole Siggins, the group’s membership is varied and interdisciplinary.

This is photo documentation of events that I hosted around Iceland with the Autonomous Energy Mobile Research Lab while on a Fulbright grant in the 2011-12 academic year. I used the mobile lab setup as a catalyst for conversations about electricity usage in Iceland, and collected stories on postcards.

Energy Awareness Month was an exhibition organized by Jaimes Mayhew and the Autonomous Energy Research Lab, presented at Gallery CA in Baltimore, MD. explored electricity and our relationship with the production, consumption, and creative inspiration that can be drawn from it. The artists included were Jaimes Mayhew, Steve Bradley, Marian April Glebes, Tim Nohe and Services United. The exhibition ran from October 6-28, 2012.

This documentation includes work from all involved artists.

As a way to change relationships in imagery between landscapes and humans, this series of animated GIFs portrays relationships that have been "queered", or made strange. Each GIF produces power in ways that do not produce power, but because they are GIF images, they are always animated, looping quietly in the background.

These images are the result of using a technique that includes using photo software to auto-stitch images taken out of a window of a moving car. The results are manufactured landscapes made from images that were largely unplanned and spontaneous. The glitches in color and shape matching, paired with the moving perspective in these images creates disjunctions where towers float away in the sky, beautifully engineered structures stop and start at random in the desert landscape, and new logics of visual ecology are formed.

Inspired by my experience as a transgender person from a family of geologists and ecologists, Ways To Change The Body/Land is a series of instruction works that describe ways that a body or landscape (a body/land) is changed in social, political, cultural, physical or ecological contexts. These instructions are abstract, and relate to the assigning of identity and use-value, inciting a call to action but not assigning the power that is needed to follow through. This leaves room for questions- if one wanted to change a body/land by assessing value, what kind of value should be assessed? Would taking out a life insurance policy assess value? Would estimating available resources assess value? All of these works seek to acknowledge the constant flux of a body/land in a perpetual state of becoming. Although I do not believe that landscapes and bodies are qualitatively the same, I believe that we assign meaning to both in similar ways.

I also send out instructions for changing a body/land on Twitter (@aerlab) and Facebook (The Autonomous Energy Research Lab).

Applique quilt
6'8" x 10'
Applique quilt made with found fabrics based on a found image of Niagara Falls without water taken in 1969. Half of the electricity used to sew this quilt was produced in my studio with a stationary bicycle and a magnet motor. Produced with support from Provisions Library.

Colored pencil, pen on paper
Cartographer: Jaimes Mayhew
Surveyors: Bones, Mickey Dehn, Asa Keiswetter, Jaimes Mayhew, Jack Pinder
22"x30"
This is a pregnant seahorse-shaped map of an entirely imaginary place where transmen who date other transmen live in a separatist community. While none of the collaborators have any intention of actually building this community, we designed this map as an escapist exercise in which we re-imagined a world that was built for us, by us. The features on Samesies Island reflect the specific desires of our group, and we imagine that if this map were made with a different group of Samesies, many of the features would change. We hope that this map will inspire other marginalized people to imagine utopias, and will be taking this project in that direction in 2015.

This version of Samesies Island is complete with a sky bucket for public transport, a taco stand, beaches, Coney Island, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, a free vet, two mountain ranges, Del LaGrace Volcano, narwhals, parrot fish, Billy Tipton recording studios, a couple dozen coves named after famous trans* masculine-of-center people, and many other features.

Prints of this map can be ordered from Society 6 (either large or extra large sizes are recommended) here: http://society6.com/jaimesmayhew/samesies-island_print#1=45

The Wave of Mutilation is a semi–permanent wave off of the coast of Samesies Island. The wave appeared when a group of transmen decided to set sea in search of utopia, and were carried to an area of sea trash that they constructed in the shape of a pregnant seahorse to form Samesies Island. Once believed to be the only means to arrive on Samsies Island, theWave of Mutilation is now understood to be a myth. It is notable that variations of the Samesies myth of The Wave of Mutilation exist across many gender variant communities, This monument stands as a permanentreminder of the reclamation of the very idea of mutilation, and the variety of ways that Samesies can healthily arrive in utopia.