Flow Flux Freeze will be attentive to the ways that assemblies are formed by molecular exchange, the very local dynamics among particles, strands, and pressures provide access to subtle shifts of things to building tectonics. The project will research and propose material ways of accepting temporal change, meeting of digital and physical archives/vaults and participatory roles within urban nature. Media will be developed to work with material change and pay attention to the limits of different tools and make ways of assembling the divergent design and feedback techniques – projects will work on combining multiple scales, materials, speeds, and media affect.
In this project, I explore the concept of an archive not as a literal storage space but as a visual collection of meaning through the mediums of flow, flux, and freeze. I utilized controlled movement exemplified by traditional lion dances, influenced by our proximity to Chinatown, and captured these dynamics in a video which I dissected frame by frame. Simultaneously, I explored the uncontrolled movement by analyzing the chaotic, abstract expressions in Julie Mehretu's artworks, applying similar techniques to another video. My final component, freeze, investigates the concept of permanence through the stability of structures and Manhattan's bedrock, which I reimagined and manipulated in a hypothetical model where I envisioned these elements suspended in the air, transforming the bedrock into an accessible, transparent space that challenges conventional perceptions of weight and permanence, thus turning the archive into a reflective space on art, site, and spatial relationships, while also serving as a monumental reminder of our interaction with the foundational elements beneath us.
Midterm: morphology of the bedrick, urban texture and poche relationship
Final: further morphology development
