Evacuation

In the first year of my MAA studies, I explored architecture and urban planning models and how they present a utopian vision of the future that allows for both the projection of and identification with a specific social imaginary.  I became interested in how these projections impose a sense of order that is never as predictable as it appears in the model.

In the studio, I experimented with a range of scale models depicting imaginary cities using the organic material of dough.   The models are built and then placed under glass creating a kind of microcosm.

This scenario depicts a city under evacuation.  The impetus for the evacuation manifest slowly over time as the city decomposes.