THE MOUND PROJECT is a mixed media installation and photographic project focused on present day sites where ancient Native burial mounds and earthworks once stood. In Detroit, where one lone mound remains, hundreds were ransacked and leveled by pothunters, grave robbers, farmers, and developers. In their places now sit neighborhoods, factories, brown-fields and blight-ridden streets, and evidence of this ancient past is largely non-existent. Along with former sites, contemporary mounds are chronicled, and future earthworks are created, documented, and inevitably destroyed.

Great Mound of the Rouge, Detroit

Site of the Great Mound

Chix on Dix, Carbon Mound

Medusa Mound, 4th of July

Tire Mound

Dorais Velodrome Tracks, Mound Road

Dorais Lot Circles, Mound Road

Morgan Mound, Conner Creek

Mound Complex, Southwest Detroit

Fort Wayne Mound

Davison Mound Fog

Marine Mound, Detroit Harbor Terminal

Dragoon Lagoon Site

Delray Culture

Carbon Culture

Tire Tree, Carbon Works

Ancient Earthwork, Springwells Mound

Last Shack Along the Rouge

Seagull Mound, Rouge River

Federal Mogul Mound

Nike Mound

Airport Trailercoach Mound

Solvay Mound, Snow

Detroit Detail, from the Archaeological Atlas of Michigan

Mound Sites, Detroit River

Carbon Works Two-Track

Utility Mound

Medusa Mound Campers, 4th of July

Tire Mound

Georgia Earthworks

Scrap Metal Mound

Davison Mound

I-75 Overpass Mound

Boblo Mound

St Aubin Mound Complex

Moroun Mound Complex

Moroun Mound

Moroun Mounds

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Salts Mounds

Moroun Mounds

Stalker Mounds

Fruehauf Enclosure

Wiping Clothes Mounds

Moroun Mounds

Mayan Mounds

Pallethenge

Trinity Mound

Midden Mounds

Midden Mounds

Rouge Enclosure

Trailer Park Site

Fox Creek Site

Detroit 1764

Detroit 1813

Detroit 1844