WALLESSNESS

Lavender Tessmer, Alex Waller, Nathaniel Elberfeld

Temporary Installation | December 2020 - February 2021

Seaport Common | Boston, MA

Supported by Design Seaport, W/S Development and Chris Grimley - OverUnder

WALLESSNESS dematerializes the wall by substituting masonry blocks with lightweight structural modules made by hand-braiding heat-activated carbon fiber strands together with fluorescent and retro-reflective fibers. Each fiber supports the project in different ways: the carbon fibers bear the structural loads, the fluorescent fibers increase visual legibility, and the retro-reflective fibers promote an interactive dialogue with the project as flash photography from mobile devices will illuminate those threads spectacularly and unexpectedly. Laced together, the diverse threads work in tandem; they are literally cut from the same cloth. WALLLESSNESS is an anagram for lawlessness, and transfigures a typology of exclusion and division into one of inclusion and connection.