The End
October 2021

Medium:
Durational Walk

Duration:
9 days, 160 miles
The End was a nine-day, 158-mile walk across the length of Long Island, beginning at the foot of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and ending at Montauk Point. From the dense edges of New York City, the route followed the island’s southern shore through suburbs, commercial strips, small towns, farms, and dunes. A daily newsletter was sent from the road, documenting the walk in fragments as the physical and emotional arc unfolded—what began in doubt and resistance gradually shifted into clarity and resolve.

Moving largely along Montauk Highway and other car-dominated corridors, the project confronted the violence and beauty embedded in Long Island’s infrastructure: roadside memorials, fragments of 9/11 steel installed in town centers, roadkill in highway medians, and the iconic Big Duck in Flanders. Small artifacts gathered along the way—a painted rock carried as a compass, a lucky penny, a buckeye—became informal talismans against the vulnerability of walking beside speeding traffic. The End reframed a place often reduced to stereotype, revealing Long Island as a shifting terrain best understood at three miles per hour. Read more here.

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