Isa Dorweiler’s Riparian Rites combines eco-prints and monotypes to ruminate on the urban waterways in Queens, NY, with an environmental nostalgia. In her eco-prints, Dorweiler employs an alchemical process where subject and material collapse into one. She has steamed a bundle of sumac, black walnut, ferns, Queen Annes's lace, chicory, onion skins, orange peel, wreaths, and screws to extract their pigment and form into the fabrics with varying degrees of detail. She has developed a recipe for iron liquor (vinegar, water, and rusty iron objects) to pour over her fabrics and deepen the pigments into what appear to be bleeding shadows of foliage and terroir. These fabrics rest unanchored, swaying in the breeze with a gentle eeriness, a subtle gesture that empowers its forms with ghost-like ephemerality. Dorweiler’s monotypes, on the other hand, which draw from archived photographs of Queens residents interacting with their waterways, suck these found images of their substance and present bleak outlines of a sketched, incomplete history marked by a fleeting sense of familiarity. An emptiness traverses both mediums, a yearning for a collective absorption of organic understanding that opens doors into the disjointed relationship between the ecological and the urban.