50 Million Windows

50 Million Windows (2021) is a collaborative drawing project done with a group of 30 children, using markers and crayons on a 50 ft. roll of paper. The project is inspired by the trailblazing public grade school teacher, Albert Collum's prompt to his students from 1963: "Draw every window in New York City." Working with the summer youth camp at Queens Museum, 2021, in this version children attempted to draw New York City’s current 50,000,000 windows, while discussing what a window really is: where the word comes from ("wind-eye"), what differences in kinds of windows from neighborhood to neighborhood signify, and how our relationship to to our windows changed over the course of COVID.

Another iteration of the project was realized as part of the 2023 installment of the biennial Momentum in Moss, Norway, entitled “Together as to Gather” curated by Tenthaus Oslo..