I am interested in exploring memory, documentation, evolution and growth, and architectural palimpsests by taking a closer look at the decline and inertia of cities. My intent is to visualize these concepts through photography, collage and mapping.

The following are a list of resources that I have begun to look at for this summer's research project in Beppu:

-"On Weather The Life of Buildings in Time" Mohsen Mostafavi and David Leatherbarrow

-"Fragments and Figments of Knowledge: the Documentation of Contemporary Art" Harald Kraemer University of Cologne, Germany

-A Conversation on Lygia Clarks Structuring the Self"

-"An Anecdoted Topography of Chance" Robert Filliou, Emmet Williams, Dieter Roth, Roland Topor

I have started the project through discussion with a local artist whose work revolves around such topics. I hope that through this artistic investigation I will begin to develop some ideas on interventions that might assist the further development of the networks mentioned in previous conversations. For instance: networks, nodes, points where share and exchange can take place, connections to different types of people, neighborhoods, cultural institutions, ect.