Quake / Temblor
A response to encountering my civil engineer father's diagnostic photographs of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake amidst family photographs, Quake/Temblor explores the intimate rapport between human and geographic disaster. The project includes engravings on formica tables, prints, text, sound, and videos of experiments conducted on a state-of-the-art seismic shake table. Quake/Temblor explores issues including the breakdown of daily life, the relationship of the individual to a larger social system, and the impossibility of prediction—in the process, transforming a scientific testing ground to a theatrical stage, employing domestic objects to speak to ruptures in daily life, and using the process of printmaking to speak to collapses in time, memory, material, and space.
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