Grace in Dwelling begins as a photographic project, as well as a collected journal of thoughts. My community is Jackson Heights, Queens, where I have lived and made my work since 2000. While I am a painter, I am interested in studying my neighborhood and how those who live here define home and, in particular, a happy home. Grace In Dwelling will invite people to come to Travers Park, Jackson Heights to be photographed. Participants will be asked to write a few lines about what they most appreciate about their lives in Jackson Heights, or the neighborhood where they live should people wander in from other places. After collecting photographs paired with these journal notes, I will take all the data back to my studio and make a text scroll or suite of text scrolls based on the responses collected at Travers Park. My work, along side the photographic documentation and journal of collected thoughts, will be my contribution to the Queens Museum exhibition of the collaborators for this project. Additonally, I am interested in producing  a printed poster/scroll of text excerpts from the collection. Such a printed piece could be posted in public spaces/bulletin boards in Jackson Heights, so that Grace in Dwelling might reach a larger audience. In this way, people might continue to engage in conversation about the content and the concept of "happy home." I would also like to see the Queens Museum exhibition seperated into units to return to neighborhood venues for extended community reach.