Erin Chapman

Erin Chapman

The Internet
Feb
24
A pedestrian strides across a long gutter puddle on the way to the safety of the sidewalk.

Water on the Street Forms Chasms of Unfathomable Depth

As our city has grown, so have its puddles thanks to the expanse of concrete leaving water with nowhere to go.
2 min read
Feb
08
A woodchuck sits in wood chips outside a groundhog-sized log cabin. A sign over its door reads "S. I. Chuck."

Groundhogs Sleep Soundly With Hearts Slowed

Take inspiration from the woodchuck—one of our city's few truly hibernating mammals.
2 min read
Jan
31
An icicle drips from the fanged, grimacing, toothy maw of a winged stone monster.

Icicles Hang at Precarious Heights

Menace awaits on every architectural angle, every surface where sun-warmed slush slaloms its way off a precipice.
3 min read
Jan
10
A stone face, looking wind-weary, peers out from the carved keystone of a building façade.

Winds Like Knives Slice Through the Intersections

The city is a tapestry of snarled wind patterns.
3 min read
Jan
06
A worker in a hardhat pushes a Christmas tree into a chipper.

A Great Fallen Forest Lies In the Street

For our third edition, we survey the sidewalks strewn with evergreen.
2 min read