http://www.emjoseph.com/the-land-the-silence daily 0.75 2025-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710809557584-8KTPI5YQ5IIKFO0R5SKP/image-asset.png The Land & The Silence - The Land & The Silence - Em Joseph - Official Trailer The Land & The Silence draws connections between otherwise unrelated places sharing the name “Glacier Bay”across Turtle Island. The film’s interest is rooted in the shared title between Sit' Eeti Gheeyi, aka Glacier Bay National Park which occupies Huna/Tinglit territory in South East Alaska, and the waterworks brand Glacier Bay owned by Home Depot. Stemming from the premise that the title of a melting national park on stollen land is attributed to several domesticized sources from which water flows and is subsequently wasted, he work explores refractions from this relationship between stollen indigenous land, the renaming of these territories, and how the same systems of erasure dictate how water is used and abused as a resource in these spaces and in contemporary society at large. Gathering documentary material and interviews from “Glacier Bays” throughout the United States, the film maps various perceptions of landscape as an expedient, both historically and amidst our current era of unprecedented and human-driven climate change. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/61a3dbd601d66c32ef1b185c/61a3dcb386659c7cf236b6c9/1638128819842/ The Land & The Silence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710809557584-8KTPI5YQ5IIKFO0R5SKP/image-asset.png The Land & The Silence - The Land & The Silence - Em Joseph - Official Trailer The Land & The Silence draws connections between otherwise unrelated places sharing the name “Glacier Bay”across Turtle Island. The film’s interest is rooted in the shared title between Sit' Eeti Gheeyi, aka Glacier Bay National Park which occupies Huna/Tinglit territory in South East Alaska, and the waterworks brand Glacier Bay owned by Home Depot. Stemming from the premise that the title of a melting national park on stollen land is attributed to several domesticized sources from which water flows and is subsequently wasted, he work explores refractions from this relationship between stollen indigenous land, the renaming of these territories, and how the same systems of erasure dictate how water is used and abused as a resource in these spaces and in contemporary society at large. Gathering documentary material and interviews from “Glacier Bays” throughout the United States, the film maps various perceptions of landscape as an expedient, both historically and amidst our current era of unprecedented and human-driven climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1638129143049-3SXPDV3ZX49N0X7NFNLF/image-asset.png The Land & The Silence - The Land & The Silence - Prelude The Land & The Silence draws connections between otherwise unrelated places sharing the name “Glacier Bay”. While many of these locations refer to actual sites––a national park in Alaska, suburban streets, and now closed business entities––others evoke this title more indirectly––a faucet and bathroom brand owned by Home Depot, an acupuncturist office in NYC’s Chinatown, discarded trash, and the space under my bathroom sink. Using the ideologies crafted around glaciers––their histories, biologies, mythologies, ownership and current demise due to global warming––this work will gather material from various locations throughout the US to map a constellation of these disparate settings. Inspired by insights gained while living with the limitations engendered by Chronic Lyme Disease, the work will locate larger geopolitical issues including climate change, identity, illness and labor within the private realms of the home and body. http://www.emjoseph.com/ice-house daily 0.75 2024-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1646575577223-EDEW8JYTGCI35ZK125O5/BedStuy_220223.jpg Ice House Ice House focuses on the prevailing structures and landscapes of New York’s ice industry that operated along the Hudson River and NYC waterways during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Formerly manufacturing and storage facilities that harvested, cut, and stockpiled reserves of ice, these sites exist today as luxury residential towers, office spaces, cultural institutions, riverside ruins, parks, and vacant lots. Remnants of a thriving and vital market that once extracted and monetized a translucent, melting, natural resource, these sites render transparent that which we value and have chosen to preserve. Using ice and its properties as a metaphorical lens, this work will draw upon the history of natural ice in New York to merge intersectional and geopolitical narratives of capitalism, environmentalism, labor, and class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1646575577223-EDEW8JYTGCI35ZK125O5/BedStuy_220223.jpg Ice House Ice House focuses on the prevailing structures and landscapes of New York’s ice industry that operated along the Hudson River and NYC waterways during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Formerly manufacturing and storage facilities that harvested, cut, and stockpiled reserves of ice, these sites exist today as luxury residential towers, office spaces, cultural institutions, riverside ruins, parks, and vacant lots. Remnants of a thriving and vital market that once extracted and monetized a translucent, melting, natural resource, these sites render transparent that which we value and have chosen to preserve. Using ice and its properties as a metaphorical lens, this work will draw upon the history of natural ice in New York to merge intersectional and geopolitical narratives of capitalism, environmentalism, labor, and class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1638129847059-E3DH29TTKUR7ID8RC865/Picture7.jpg Ice House Ice House focuses on the prevailing structures and landscapes of New York’s ice industry that operated along the Hudson River and NYC waterways during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Formerly manufacturing and storage facilities that harvested, cut, and stockpiled reserves of ice, these sites endure today as luxury residential towers, office spaces, cultural institutions, riverside ruins, parks, and vacant lots. Remnants of a thriving and vital market that once extracted and monetized a translucent, melting, natural resource, these sites conceptually demonstrate different notions of *ice-infrastructures* that modern humanity has either chosen to protect or neglect. Using ice and its properties as a metaphorical lens, this work will draw upon the history of natural ice in New York to merge intersectional and geopolitical narratives of capitalism, environmentalism, labor, and class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1638129849565-U6M70PEY6A2E49YY1C3S/Picture8.jpg Ice House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1646575620331-Z8PBHDMGVRXIX1V6ACPC/37.jpg Ice House http://www.emjoseph.com/a-branch-sprig-bow-shoot-crumple-or-crease daily 0.75 2026-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1780436801416-K0H2C34XQUM7QV043WK8/image-asset.jpeg A branch, sprig, bow, shoot, crumple, or crease - Em Joseph - A branch, sprig, bow, shoot, crumple, or crease - Official Trailer A branch chronicles stories of Lebanese cedar trees (Cedrus libani) planted outside of Lebanon, while contending with the human relationships surrounding these trees. The work engages a range of perceptions – centering the Lebanese cedar as an emblem for what it means to be Lebanese – and more broadly, what it means to be part of a diaspora. Through interviews with people in relationship with these arboreal subjects, A branch follows the nuanced ways humans and plants seek to root themselves in place, uncovering the pressures of assimilation and the shedding of traits or cultural practices during a time of surveillance, bombardment, and illegal deportation. The narrative displays several characters' attempts to maintain cultural sovereignty in foreign geographies, highlighting breaks and relinquishments of cultural practices and identities. A branch coagulates these human experiences with the ongoing environmental pressures that trees face, highlighting efforts of care, and adaptation amidst disruptions by the geopolitical forces of climate change and war. The project asks: what drives humans or trees to adapt and flourish in new surroundings, and what shades of pain, comfort, remembrance, and futurity emerge in this process? These questions speak to the interconnected struggle between humans and plants during the breakdown of climate, globalized economies and just governance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1638129633726-P26P8L0JHZIA56MPLHFS/Weeping+Beech.jpg A branch, sprig, bow, shoot, crumple, or crease https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1780436801416-K0H2C34XQUM7QV043WK8/image-asset.jpeg A branch, sprig, bow, shoot, crumple, or crease - Em Joseph - A branch, sprig, bow, shoot, crumple, or crease - Official Trailer A branch chronicles stories of Lebanese cedar trees (Cedrus libani) planted outside of Lebanon, while contending with the human relationships surrounding these trees. The work engages a range of perceptions – centering the Lebanese cedar as an emblem for what it means to be Lebanese – and more broadly, what it means to be part of a diaspora. Through interviews with people in relationship with these arboreal subjects, A branch follows the nuanced ways humans and plants seek to root themselves in place, uncovering the pressures of assimilation and the shedding of traits or cultural practices during a time of surveillance, bombardment, and illegal deportation. The narrative displays several characters' attempts to maintain cultural sovereignty in foreign geographies, highlighting breaks and relinquishments of cultural practices and identities. A branch coagulates these human experiences with the ongoing environmental pressures that trees face, highlighting efforts of care, and adaptation amidst disruptions by the geopolitical forces of climate change and war. The project asks: what drives humans or trees to adapt and flourish in new surroundings, and what shades of pain, comfort, remembrance, and futurity emerge in this process? These questions speak to the interconnected struggle between humans and plants during the breakdown of climate, globalized economies and just governance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1646575328805-9Q5WTQTPTVY6PTDHFMLC/LA+Arboretum_diptych.jpg A branch, sprig, bow, shoot, crumple, or crease https://static1.squarespace.com/static/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/61a3dc364d0dd626ec5d5516/61a3dc5e61b9581da54e0c1e/1780435960162/ A branch, sprig, bow, shoot, crumple, or crease http://www.emjoseph.com/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2024-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710809461356-Y0501YG6WG7J8L3EB3MS/image-asset.png Where Can We Be Found? - Where Can We Be Found? - EcoRove - Official Trailer Where Can We Be Found? (أين يمكن أن تجدنا؟) focuses on the state of Lebanese Cedar trees (Cedrus libani) in Lebanon today. In parallel to explorations of the various ecologies that the tree inhabits and co-inhabits, the film re-tells transhistorical narratives of the Cedar, which has been used since ancient times as a symbol of eternity, immortality, and more recently as an emblem of political superiority, while the biological tree itself is near extinction. Tracing various degrees of human impact leading to the tree’s contemporary demise, for example, the disruption of its habitat due to climate change and extractive tourism—and its use as a civic logo to craft the illusion of a distinct Lebanese identity, ‘Where Can We Be Found?’ distinguishes the Lebanese Cedar as an autonomous being from the various ways in which it has been used as a national, cultural, and ecological symbol, or otherwise misconstrued. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710809461356-Y0501YG6WG7J8L3EB3MS/image-asset.png Where Can We Be Found? - Where Can We Be Found? - EcoRove - Official Trailer Where Can We Be Found? (أين يمكن أن تجدنا؟) focuses on the state of Lebanese Cedar trees (Cedrus libani) in Lebanon today. In parallel to explorations of the various ecologies that the tree inhabits and co-inhabits, the film re-tells transhistorical narratives of the Cedar, which has been used since ancient times as a symbol of eternity, immortality, and more recently as an emblem of political superiority, while the biological tree itself is near extinction. Tracing various degrees of human impact leading to the tree’s contemporary demise, for example, the disruption of its habitat due to climate change and extractive tourism—and its use as a civic logo to craft the illusion of a distinct Lebanese identity, ‘Where Can We Be Found?’ distinguishes the Lebanese Cedar as an autonomous being from the various ways in which it has been used as a national, cultural, and ecological symbol, or otherwise misconstrued. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710807928243-RZFDDV0I0F32UDKRTH8I/image-asset.octet-stream Where Can We Be Found? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710808101691-D71UOA5YXTZ9SK1DOCWW/Where+Can+We+Be+Found_Comp_1.JPG Where Can We Be Found? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710808113318-79WS9I4V6LTPKUH0GOQQ/Where+Can+We+Be+Found_Comp_2.JPG Where Can We Be Found? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710808116956-J3QZFXPP2KWRPHUMWHL7/Where+Can+We+Be+Found_Comp_3.JPG Where Can We Be Found? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710808118966-ZD667CZURA5G7J5UD1Z7/Where+Can+We+Be+Found_Comp_4.JPG Where Can We Be Found? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710808121115-GS77JBHFKCHIAFS8QS02/Where+Can+We+Be+Found_Comp_5.JPG Where Can We Be Found? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710808123437-RTR7CQ0AV6MK42UNEG7V/Where+Can+We+Be+Found_Comp_6.JPG Where Can We Be Found? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710808126328-A7G6J4HP9UDUGEQILSTM/Where+Can+We+Be+Found_Comp_7.JPG Where Can We Be Found? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710808129899-P866ZA9JFAPDCNLVQF6N/Where+Can+We+Be+Found_Comp_8.JPG Where Can We Be Found? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710808132335-J1EK4J0EZ1UBFZEDZI0N/Where+Can+We+Be+Found_Comp_9.JPG Where Can We Be Found? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/1710808136162-DMI12ZOO0SQEBOEO71CI/Where+Can+We+Be+Found_Comp_10.JPG Where Can We Be Found? http://www.emjoseph.com/about daily 0.75 2026-06-03 http://www.emjoseph.com/contact daily 0.75 2019-07-27 http://www.emjoseph.com/home daily 1.0 2024-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514cffa5e4b00a487d422e6a/75ee85e1-dc06-4523-9905-067a74f41024/Quartz.png Em Joseph All content property of Em Joseph, 2024.