View the process book for this project here.
How we talk about an issue can be just as important as how we solve it.
This semester, I explored the space of radicalization, white extremism, and mass violence to pick apart the ecology of hate and how we talk about it. Perpetrators of mass violence are often inspected in isolation, described as “lone wolves,” when in reality they influence one another in a growing, interconnected, wicked problem.
The final deliverable took form as a wall installation showing the connections and influences of past attacks on more recent ones. Red thread indicates those influences, box depth represents the death count of each instance, and some boxes have quotes from perpetrators in black type to communicate how they see themselves as heroes, martyrs, and victims.
