Welcome to the Sandhog Project!

Sandhogs are urban miners who are 800 feet below the streets of Manhattan excavating bedrock and tunneling the largest capital project in NYC's history, the 60 mile long City Water Tunnel #3. This channel will provide fresh water and secure the vitality of Gotham's future.

The Sandhog Project is a multi-faceted work of photo, video, web and installation art that explores the simultaneity and dependency of the above-ground city life and this subterranean world.

Over the past four years, through an array of sound and images, I have illuminated the lore of the sandhogs, telling their stories and revealing their underground reality. Starting as a website, then evolving as a large-scale installation at Grand Central, and soon to become a book, The Sandhog Project introduces the surface-dwellers to the vibrant characters of this unseen and perilous sphere. I endeavor to ask the public to reflect on their daily experiences - what is our role in and relationship to the city?

It has also been a collaboration between the "hogs" of Local 147 and myself. They have contributed immensely, as storytellers and image-makers, in the creation of the Sandhog Project.

Not unlike the sandhogs and the vast tunnels they dig, this site is colorful, and full of rich surprises, and constantly evolving.

So tunnel onward. . . Explore, discover, meet the hogs, and visit often for regular updates!