Making Traces is an immersive art installation and embodied inquiry into our deeply fractured relationship with the land. By interrogating the intersections of geology, agriculture, and social history, the work unearths how physical marks on the landscape mirror the political structures imposed upon it. It positions the earth not as a resource to be commodified, but as a site of collective memory and ongoing struggle.

At the core of the installation are three conceptual pillars: archaeology as architecture, construction as pedagogy, and digging as an inherent right.

By confronting the legal and physical barriers that strip communities of their connection to the soil, Making Traces actively resists current models of territorial exclusion, bureaucratic control, and capitalist exploitation. Instead, the installation manifests a radical reimagining of the landscape; one where the act of inhabiting the earth becomes a shared, de-commodified, and liberating practice.

In collaboration with Kaye Song.