Inspired by my previous project Erratic Accretion, developed in collaboration with the UNC Charlotte Geology Department, the Arts @ Large Residency with the Heart Space Studio would extend my practice of studying place through 35mm photography, collecting, classification, and display. During that exhibition, I also used plexiglass boxes filled with found materials gathered throughout the university—small fragments that together reflected the identity of that environment.
In Walker’s Point, I would revisit this process by assembling archival-style collections of artifacts, detritus, natural materials, and community-made objects, alongside new drawings, map-inspired works, cyanotypes, and film photographs.
Through layered drawings using found imagery, neighborhood iconography, and collected visual references, I would create interpretive maps of Walker’s Point that reflect both its physical geography and cultural identity. Together, these works would build a layered atlas of the neighborhood’s geology, labor, history, and evolving character, gradually assembling across the walls of the Heart Space Studio as an active visual archive.
