Showed this photo in a presentation today on critical access and disability aesthetics for Nima Javidi’s class “Forms of Accessibility” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It’s a fragment of a concrete map from my thesis project, with holes representing moments of absence in the existing city. The cast is fragile, so as you run your hand over the map it is wiped away, creating an imperceptible tactile surface with only the moment of absence remaining.

An image of two hands holding a concrete panel with a white hole in it. The panel is cast concrete and the hole is 3D printed, like a trunacated cone inset into the material. There is a rough bitmap texture etched into the concrete but it looks very fragile and irregular, like the image could be wiped away at any moment. And you can see a bitmap of the city and a subway line. it's a map of a piece of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the map depicts imagined futures / moments of absence and desire for the city.