/ parallel fragmentation

BA Thesis Installation | SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California | 2011

Parallel Fragmentation was a process-based installation that examined the interrelation between creative and emotional dissolution. Conceived as a dialogue between poetry and spatial design, the project evolved through an iterative collaboration with poet T.J. DiFrancesco, whose work In This Half Kingdom became both subject and catalyst. Each draft of the poem prompted a corresponding transformation within a single physical room—objects shifting, walls repainted, surfaces reconfigured—as I sought to translate the evolving emotional tenor of his language into spatial form. The installation thus became a live record of creative negotiation: the act of making and unmaking, responding and reframing, mirroring the tension between artistic and personal intimacy. The final exhibition reconstructed the last “draft” of the room, accompanied by a grid of photographic stills documenting each prior state. Each image was paired with its corresponding draft of the poem, revealing a parallel evolution—text and space unraveling together. Visually, the work evoked the collapse of a shared world: remnants of partying, fighting, drinking, and the aftermath of chaos—a domestic landscape both intimate and estranged. In its conclusion, the project distilled the residue of creation and relationship alike, embodying the quiet clarity that follows emotional wreckage and artistic completion.