Author: Brooke Zacharuk

Quarantine Person

Course: ARCH 5201 – Graduate Seminar 2

Professors: Mokena Makeka and Jill Stoner

Year: Fall 2020

Project Description

My artifact is the combination of the visual accompaniment of poems I wrote during the first four class lectures on Plato’s cave, spirituality, dismantling the colonial mindset, and alternative urbanisms. The combined sketches form the symbol of a person, which I engraved on a clay tablet.

 

How is culture reproduced

through times of trauma

or times of

revaluation

 

Multi-cultural

Multi-dimensional

Multi-complex

 

Thinking, Making,

Self-examining

Tradition,

In Modern Context

Tradition,

Finding itself

Through the Modern

In modularity

 

Impermanence

Nature is an expression of transiency

Persevere through uncertainty

Precarity, Fragility

Connection to the earth is

Tenuous

 

Ephemeral, Temporal

Materiality,

Architectural Philosophy

 

Difference

Exemplified

Towards

Attempted

Impermanence

Lasting

 

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