His practice has long been about the collision of infrastructure and wilderness — from canoeing the polluted Hackensack River to exploring abandoned buildings in Berlin during the pandemic.
Last year, he recreated sites around the Meadowlands — liminal zones that have resisted development for centuries — imagining mutant rats, state task forces, poison barrels, and collapsing infrastructure co-existing within the landscape.
Now, in his Special Project residency, the work has shifted.
Instead of just observing these “degenerate spaces,” Lorel is asking: What would it look like to intervene? | 
