Collected Topography grew out of years of documenting collaborative drawings made with friends, lovers, and strangers on scrap paper. I realized I had accidentally created the conditions for creativity and permission to fail. This is the framework built around that accident.

Collected Topographies function as both a counter-archive and a technical framework for mapping inner worlds. Through specific time-constrained guided drawing prompts, and personal artifacts, participants collectively construct islands, bridges, auras, and connections. The group is invited to share a brief history tied to their artifacts and creative decisions. Doing so, they engage in a transactive memory system within a container of play and permission to fail. The resulting physical maps are digitized into 3D models and hosted in New Art City as a virtual installation in parallel to large-scale 3D-printed forms. Together, these outcomes propose the archive as an active, relational process that resists extraction and illuminates communal, affective, desire and offers an alternative infrastructure to connecting across networked spaces. 

This is an ongoing series.

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