frinj loci
Collaboration with Allyssa Clements
Frinj Loci seeks to interrogate how the space between digital and analog modes of production provokes the emergence of new hybrid forms of craft in the age of increasing automation. Both projects leverage the site to stage beginning-to-end production of regionally specific craft traditions, incorporating plant species typically found in edge conditions. This shift towards the periphery was both pragmatic and conceptual. Incorporating Knoxville’s industrial heritage, each project is shaped by its historical context and current site dynamics, including the ongoing EPA clean-up at Sanitary Laundry, and its adjacency to maker spaces and local craft-promoting businesses. By engaging with these species from cultivation to extraction to manipulation to fabrication, these projects explore themes of value, loss, and ritual.