Guest, Staten Island, New York.

I staged "Guest" in an abandoned lot located near the Winter Palace. I packed duct tape and rope and built a "guest room" out of the trash I found on the site.

Generally, on this site, stolen cars are secreted to this abandoned stretch of land, stripped and torched. Resting on the ground beside many of the burnt cars are clean, new baby car seats; they have been removed but not taken.

This is to be visited in the middle of the day. Sunlight, bird song and budding trees will not dissolve the sensation that I am not wanted here and that this is not mine. Occasionally, a lone grown man walks through, but invariably, he, too, looks wary—trying to watch his very own back. I had expected to run across children in the lot—as I had often found myself in overgrown thickets and trash heaps when I was a child. But I was told that children don't come here. Everyone in the neighborhood basically stays away, including the people that have nowhere else to go; they circulate around its perimeter.

Christopher Cardinale, Brendan Fitzgerald, and James Vicente were instrumental in helping me explore the site, photograph its remains, build the structure, and set up the documentation.