philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania
Critic: Maya ALAM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Maria FUENTES: The significant divide between mechanization and signalization aims to automate the mental and manual processes; showing a sort of crossroads between the digital and the analog.
- Maya ALAM, “Queer Textiles.”, Model Photo
- Maya ALAM, “Queer Textiles.”, Photogrammetry Manipulation
- Maya ALAM, “Queer Textiles.”, Photogrammetry Manipulation
- Maya ALAM, “Queer Textiles.”, Site Plan
The idea that imaging can represent not one idea, but thinking itself. This market is proof that memories can begin to intermingle with snapshots of images, along with mirages from machine visions. The market begins to blur part to whole relationships that intertwine the realities we create of Manayunk. Here, the textiles you contribute to the system of the market are free to be re-exchanged, recreated and reintegrated into a new eternity. The market allows for a pseudo-shopping experience between a conflux of flea market and repurposed cotton that puts on display what most fashion ateliers, fast-fashion corporations, and department warehouses will hide in the basement. Vats of dye are on display, showcasing the waste of both water and color returning to where it can be repurposed to create more than what we toss into the trash. Up ahead is a piece of land where we are embracing trash, and capturing the beauty of the ugly fruits, the irregular module, and the odd peg. Here, we can embrace a queerness that gently pushes the community towards a binary fusion of non-normality that weaves into the gentrification of the growing town.
