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Colin Martinez (b. 1999 Columbus, OH) is a visual artist and landscape architect who lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Twisted Winter Wood, 2025

Twisted Winter Wood is a collection of essays spliced into ‘HOW THE PARK MAN SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MEET THE PUBLIC’, a 1953 memo from the Forest Preserves of Cook County.In the amorphous blob of hastily constructed mid-century development that stains the once openlands around America’s third largest city, the Forest Preserves holds and protects land from development; and and for those lucky vehicle owning individuals offers solitude and a glimpse of the kinds of landscapes that used to dominate the Great Lakes’ borders. Herein are musings about walking through those woods in the winter- a time that empties the forest of leaves, visitors, and the fucking beer drinking fisherman.

Design, and photography by Colin Martinez