beyond extraction
Araucanía and antofogasta’s geological narratives
in daily memoriam
Map: Glimpsing the Food Space
A break from recipes to ask “Where does a food space begin?” mine is rooted in maps.
Short Talk on Stucco
After the war, Anna and Larry (Friedmann) Flynn settled in Vancouver. They married and purchased a rainbow house: a stuccoed bungalow on W 64th Street.
The Fascinating Semi-Gravity
Towers, observatories, watchtowers, windmills, sheds, and nameless structures – the world of Minoru Nomata.
Glossier : Most Tags Lead to WIPs (and sometimes heart-shaped hot tubs)
A journey through the unexpected places a single IG tag can take you and showing you one of my own favorite research processes in the process of doing so.
To Be Automated: Manufacturing
Reflecting on explorations at the intersection of industrial production and architectural application.
‘the everyday sort of accumulates into who we are becoming or who we are’
A conversation on parents
6:20 minutes
Recipe: My ‘go to’ Sweet Challah
A tradition for most, but not for us. A sweet holiday challah, or a challah for any occasion.
A Breakfast Table in Bandra.
While breakfast anchors my grandfather’s day, it anchors my family to a place and people oceans away.
The Erudite Funes and the Naming of Things
Funes has been gifted and cursed by an extraordinary eidetic memory. What he wants is to encode each number a unique name of an object, a person, a place, a sound, a smell, or another number. He isn’t the only one who attempted to name a series of things.
Beyond the frame
Passageways, mirrors, windows, and doors
These are the unflinching metaphors of domestic spaces
Short Talk on High School Gym Class (a queer memory for Pride)
The high school gymnasium is a scary place. For many queer people, the locker room is perhaps the more frightening portion of that space—that chamber in which we would undress, shower, redress, address and avoid each other, pray for the bell to ring, and hope that everyone forgot we actually had to play sports.
Recipe: Spinach Patties (a taste of 1948)
A holiday recipe bridging generations, countries, and 70 years. of family.
‘i do not ever want to evaluate myself based on what i make’
A conversation on sharing
5:32 minutes
Time moves differently in this neighborhood….
Time moves differently in this neighborhood…
A Crisp and Moldy Cave
When I eat cheese, a similar phenomenon occurs. Except, of course, I imagine landscapes and architectural spaces.
Mortal Monuments
Monuments are made to be immortal, but they are products of their environment just as humans are products of their habitats. The creator’s intention will continue to be diluted by the changing interpreter.
The Fool, Card #0
I quickly learned it was not good practice for a fortune-teller to ask about themselves.