This installation is a collaborative full-scale mock-up, used as an opportunity to build a shared material language between Joshua Challen Ice and me. We are interested in how two distinct practices—each rooted in hands-on making and diagrammatic thinking—can converge.

 The initial iteration of this piece is a life-sized exploded diagram—not of an object, but of a process. A collaborative logic structure built from wall studs and offcuts splayed across the floor, operating as both object and index: a framework shaped by constraints, chance, and the lived dynamics of working together. Our jumping-off point is a set of books we own: I own a copy of How to Fix Almost Everything and Josh owns a copy of How to Fix Damn Near Everything. The piece includes tracings from both, mounted on provisional elements made of remnants from past installations. Each element is a response to the gallery’s existing architecture, allowing us to play with the language of “problems” and temporary fixes.

Our decision-making process is responsive: a knot in a board becomes a reason to change a cut, a misalignment becomes a new guideline. Each rule we follow or break generates the next step. The final work will resemble a scaffolding of interactions—a negotiation turned into structure. Viewers encounter not a finished form, but an active system of shifting boundaries and partially resolved alignments.