Jeremy Drummond

Jeremy Drummond’s “65-Point Plan for Sustainable Living” offers a birds-eye view of suburban communities from major cities in each province, territory and state in Canada and the United States. Although presented in general alignment to their geographic location, there is little else to suggest a structure informed by its environment. Drummond further emphasizes this fundamental disconnect by manipulating the image. Each image portrays a single subdivision that has been digitally reconstructed into an enclosed geographical space. Removing external roadways and paths, the spaces become self-contained garrisons against their surroundings.

Drummond’s images emphasize the unsustainable nature of these structures, which are increasingly coming to terms with their tenuous and unrealistic relationship to their surrounding economic and ecological supports. Unmoored from the source of their support these images suggest an aberrant typology in dramatic need of realignment.