Darkhouse Lighthouse

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Notes

1 Troy Hill Art Houses, “Troy Hill Art Houses,” https://www.troyhillarthouses.com (accessed January 29, 2024).

2 At the time of my visit, the lighthouse had not yet been painted with the blue black stripe that it now has.

3 Lenka Clayton, “Bio, C.V., Etc.,” https://www.lenkaclayton.com/new-page-1 (accessed January 29, 2024).

4 Phillip Andrew Lewis, “About,” http://www.phillipandrewlewis.com/info (accessed January 29, 2024).

5 Emma Riva, “The Distributive Property of the Unknown,” Bunker Projects (January 10, 2023), https://www.bunkerprojects.org/riva.html (accessed January 29, 2024).

6 “Dovetail Home Improvements.” Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dovetailhomeimprovements (accessed January 29, 2024). I believe that there were architects involved as well in the planning of structure; the participants credited here are all of those credited on the project and artists websites.

7 This is not the only project by the duo which features Pittsburgh in a state of wasting https://mattress.org/works/the-museum-collects-itself/(accessed January 29, 2024). Moreover, the waste and wasting of Pittsburgh is a recently well-represented theme at the Mattress Factory, with their most recent summer party being named the Trash Bash Community Fest.

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Miriam Devlin

Miriam Devlin is an interdisciplinary craftsperson, educator, and entrepreneur who comes from a family of the same. She works on building stewardship: with special interest in craft-oriented, caring, low-impact approaches to creating spaces, parts, and plans for general contracting, specialty fabrication, and water and resource management projects, often using wood and salvaged materials. Miriam’s research while earning an MA in Critical Craft Studies from Warren Wilson in 2023 coalesced around the politics and practicalities of architectural repair, the skilled aesthetic perceptions of repairers, as gleaned from a view of an urban crafted landscape.