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Today everyone celebrates Annika but some of us are lucky enough to celebrate her every day ⭐️2️⃣3️⃣

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it’s annika’s birthday! thanks for everything <3

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Black white and Yay all over

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camera + projector

[SITE 1] 13 west street [adjacent to Boston’s Brattle Book Shop]

[SITE 2] Boston Common

Given the program of performance, brattle book shop offers an unconventional model for a ritualistic performance. The staging and unstaging of the book carts becomes a choreographed event and allows analog information to be spread outside, framed by surrounding residential buildings. With written information accessible by the brattle book shop, this project proposes photographic information to be accessible in the adjacent space.

This project treats photography as both a spatial and temporal process. It proposes an inhabitable camera obscura that captures, develops, and stores images within the site itself. Mirroring Brattle’s composition—a building paired with an open lot—the intervention uses the adjacent three-story structure connected to a vacant space where site imagery is projected, processed, contained, and then made visible in its eventual procession to site 2.

The projector shows media produced on site 1, continuing the central idea of photography as performance.

The public is invited to view the projected media inside and outside of the projector. Tourists and locals both frequent the site, the Boston Common, a park rich with history. Voices have been amplified while others have been stifled. As such, the site of the common makes the projector even more prevalent, as the projector seeks to project reality, future and past, abstract and solid.

After all, the power of photography, as Susan Sontag tells us, “Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can’t possess reality, one can possess images—one can’t possess the present but one can possess the past.” We should all be able to possess the past, in all its reality, by embracing the abstract all around us.

Lost in Translation, Advanced option studio with @efimero__design

In collaboration with Annika Marcelis, the best project partner of all time ⭐️

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Twelve1️⃣2️⃣

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One! Big! Circle ⭕️ !!!!!!!!

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A bit ago, I made a quilt! I was fortunate to have it on view in the museum last year. Now my quilt gets to be used in my living room. Feel free to read a bit more about it below

This quilt speaks to my complicated relationship with France (where I grew up) and my queerness. I feel a growing distance between myself and French culture. Throughout my adolescence, I rejected the francophone world for being a rigid place where I couldn’t be myself. I gradually stopped surrounding myself with French speakers, and eventually, I moved away.

“Tu me manques” in French or, as printed in small print on the white fabric, “I miss you” is stated as the message the quilt shares. Maybe missing a person I used to be, an expectation, or the person I could be. The direct translation is “you are missing from me,” offering the additional meaning that there is part of me that is missing.
The type is drawn to resemble the cursive writing I would use in French, designed out of fabric squares and triangles. The grid printed on the squares is the rigid grid used in France for cursive writing.

It was important to me to have this message on a large quilt, an important work of labor to scale with the emotional weight of the sentiment. The quilt takes on a new role as an object to comfort and envelop, bringing some emotional consolation.

First photo credit to Erik Gould

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Climbing the down escalator 🆙🆙🆙

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wow, such a beautiful world!

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thanks providence!

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