Public, Fast, Locked: The Geometry of Control

This installation creates a site that archives the built environments and aesthetic codes of institutional life in the United States. A central focus is the atmospheric and material similarities between public schools, fast food restaurants, and prisons—spaces linked not only by policy but by shared lighting, smells, spatial design, and scarcity of natural materials. Through sculpture, installation, performance, sound, and writing, the work examines how these spaces shape perception, behavior, and possibility. Projects often explore sensory infrastructure as a form of soft control—an invisible architecture that conditions emotional and social experience, especially for those living within systems marked by containment, repetition, and structural neglect.