




Down the Ra***t Hole (2023) is a visual descent into a an rhetorical underworld inhabited by the artist, who at the time of creation had become near-obsessed with a rat-centric erasure poem based on a press conference transcript on NYC.GOV titled "Mayor Eric Adams Signs Legislation to Fight Rats, Build Cleaner City." Posed as an alternative to the textbook version of Mayor Adams' self-proclaimed War on Rats, the poem, and ensuing visual and text works scratch at the nature of political rhetorics and repetitions and scurry down the networked tunnels through which they disperse. Scavenged, repurposed, and scattered text, information, and materials refute the tone and intention of the original source text – heres to "the greatest rats New York City ever had."