This series of multi-media installations uses video, sculpture, and textile to consider the myths of men we identify as being good at being outside. Wearing homemade camouflage suits, collaborator Katie Hargrave and I traipse across the United States in locations associated with figures such as John Audubon, William Bartram, and John Muir, filming our own attempts at bushcraft. Join us in Florida, Wyoming, and Alabama, as we film an audition tape, a trailer, tap-outs, and other tropes of the reality genre.

The Episodes: The Trailer, North Florida, Flaming Gorge, Ruffner Mountain

The Book

This project is documented in the book Bad Outdoorsmen, available from Workshop Arts. 

​​Part reality show application, part travelogue, Bad Outdoorsmen documents a multi-year, multi-media installation project by the artists Katie Hargrave and Meredith Laura Lynn. Traipsing through the woods of north Florida in handmade camouflage suits, the artists retrace the steps of influential environmentalists John Audubon, William Bartram, and John Muir while building a case for why they should be featured on the television show Alone. The resulting video, sculpture, and photography call into question the legacies of these outdoorsmen and the myths many in the United States tell about who belongs in the outdoors. Essays by Julie Dickover and Marcus Civin place the work within the broader contexts of tourism, capitalism, and settler colonialism and book design by Caleb Cain Marcus blends textile and print to bring the artists’ camouflage to the reader.