Van Buskirk Island is a group of hand carved linoleum prints based on silver gelatin prints I produced of Van Buskirk Island in New Milford, NJ. The island sits adjacent to the Hackensack River and is home to an abandoned historic-19th century water purification plant, the first of its kind in the country, along with a delicate wetland ecosystem. Because of the plant's historic status, it has, along with the land around it, remained untouched by development in an otherwise densly populated area. I created these prints as a kind of reverse photojournalism, documenting the natural decay of the structures and the beauty of its surrounds, out of both a reverance for the site and an anxiety that it may at some point be demolished.