Welcome to the Sandhog Project!

As you read this, urban miners, known as sandhogs, are 800 feet below Manhattan excavating 500 million-year old rock to provide fresh water to the city. The Sandhog Project is a multi-media site that explores the simultaneity and dependency of the above-ground city life and this subterranean world.

Over the past three years, through an array of sound and images, I have illuminated the lore of the sandhogs, telling their stories and revealing aspects of their working environment. Audio, video, and photographs depict the colorful personalities and intriguing tradition of the sandhogs' reality.

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.

Starting as a website and most recently evolving as a large-scale installation at Grand Central Terminal, The Sandhog Project is a public artwork that introduces the surface-dwellers of the city to the vibrant characters and systems of the underground.

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!