I documented and dissected a fractured place for over a nine month long period to create work that invites another sort of conversation around design, around design and ornamentation, around design and civic change and my own personal role as designer.
The architecture of Mid-Market proudly broadcasts its eras as past forces of social, political and economical shifts alter the spatial and material surroundings. Equally, the past frames our way of thinking. Our schema subconsciously interprets, categorizes and relates new knowledge with the preconceived frameworks of our past. Everything we read, hear, see, or experience -- good or bad -- leaves a residue on our perceptions. This is why we experience the same things differently. Naturally, my background in interior design and architecture provoked an interest -- if not mild obsession -- to document and explore the historical and present status of the buildings along my path. I fragmented pieces of the built environment to create new spatial relationships, void of the current context.