NONCHRONOLOGIES
2024-ongoingNONCHRONOLOGIES challenge the idea that place and memory unfold along a single, linear timeline. Inspired by the Lukasa, a tactile memory board used by the Luba people to hold and transmit histories, this project uses tactile mapmaking to explore an heir property through a dialogue between two family members from different generations. The older generation recalls how the land was used, what was once present, and how the landscape changed following the arrival of major industrial polluters, including Smithfield and DuPont. Rather than reducing these transformations to a sequence on a two-dimensional map, the tactile intervention layers personal histories, environmental change, and present-day conditions within the same landscape. The map becomes a living record through which intergenerational memory reveals not only what has changed or been lost, but how a family and its relationship to the land persist through environmental injustice.
Mapping
Memory
Giving the
Map Depth
Reading
the Layers