sea floor to sky ceiling: Exploration of the Ephemeral

Constructed Ground studio focused on land form with minimal program. The Providence River, site of my intervention, runs through the affluent downtown and into more derelict neighborhoods beyond. In my first experience of the site, I was particularly struck by an abandoned pier situated beneath the
Point Street Bridge. This island of ruins excited a curiosity rooted in a desire to understand the past and its relationship to the present. The marks that we make never really go away, rather they evolve through us, take on new meanings, shape the way we think, the things we make, and our relationship to our spaces and environments. These artifacts from the past invoke something
powerful, something mysterious. The following images are sculptural gestures investigating this ephemeral quality reflected through the presence of the piers, the last of which became the impetus for my final design.