Speculative Atlas

Laura Sallade

Expanding on my repertoire of architectural materials and chemical processes, I have been thinking through the overt and obscured ways materials shape our perception. A central interest in this work has been glass: its intrinsic relationship to light and its presence in almost every aspect of daily life. As a craft and a technology, this material has shaped concepts of transparency, both materially and metaphorically. It also has a lineage, a thread that when pulled can reveal insights into the various layers within the complex system of material ecology. I am interested in the potential glass has to map some of this complexity and to re-center the mystery and paradox it has helped marginalize throughout history.