GAUD15 New York, NY 2015

A floating field of images shifts and realigns as visitors move beneath it, revealing and concealing student work through motion alone. Installed in the Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery at Pratt Institute, the installation operates as a lenticular volume, where images are distributed across clusters of rotated cardboard fins. As visitors move around and through the space, individual projects briefly come into alignment before slipping back into abstraction, turning circulation into a tool for discovery.

The exhibition gathers visual work from the previous year by students of Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design into a large hanging structure composed of precisely rotated panels. Together, the fins form an anamorphic system in which drawings and images are revealed only through movement, allowing the work to be encountered gradually rather than all at once.

Each panel is suspended using a simple gravity-driven mechanism—a CNC-cut disk, two strings, and a counterweight—allowing visual complexity to emerge from repetition and slight variation. The system remains lightweight and legible, relying on gravity rather than rigid framing to hold its form.

The overall volume is vaulted, creating cavities that visitors can enter and move through while opening views to models displayed below. Composed of more than eight hundred custom laser-cut panels, the installation reveals an underlying order within apparent turbulence. This shifting condition reflects the experimental culture of the school itself—where diverse voices are held together through productive friction and experienced through motion, overlap, and alignment.