the horizon toward which we move always recedes before us (objects)

This new series of architectural renderings take a global account of the importance of transnational student organizing movements. The project honors these locations of recent, more obscure activist sites to the internationally iconic through specific, cited objects. This method leans on long-term working relationships across the world with organizers, scholars, curators, and locals to identify each object.

This process alters an overall architectural and research method influenced by activist allies, public records, and intimate artifacts to make drawings that present a vacancy for viewers to enter these open spaces with these items. Each vellum sheet is pre-treated with house paint, then worked with layers of painter’s tape, corrective fluid, and fluorescent and drafting inks. These works use only architecture & construction materials to fabricate luminous documents focused on affective spaces and tonalities. This method combines precision with an atmospheric quality, a specific moment with a welcoming sense of absence.

Each work implicates other fraught objects, tools, and their corresponding complicated sites, and ultimately the exchange of ideas towards a more expansive and inclusive world not long ago and necessary for tomorrow.