Peery Sloan
What if your weird idea was the best idea?
What if your story met other stories?
What if we built a world where things worked differently?
What does this street hold? What does it mean to really know your neighbors not just their names, but what they notice from their windows?
Who has the right to exist in public spaces? Taking cues from pigeons, we practiced deliberate lingering in commercial spaces without consumption.
As a tour guide within Simeen Anjum's Public Agency of Travel Planning for the Overwhelmed, I guided visitors deeper into the disorientation of a mock visa process. Does bureaucracy exist to help or to remind us who holds the power to move freely?
What happens when we create a space from earth itself? Do natural materials invite us to linger differently?
Can I unravel Protestant and capitalist programming?
I try to refuse the logics of productivity and relearn how to pay attention.
What opens when we attend to what's usually ignored? What happens when we treat the mundane as if it has an inner life?
What if I built frames for a forest that's been curating its own exhibition all along?
How do you listen in a foreign land? How do you make yourself receptive to what you don't yet understand?
Can community exist—or hold—when built on systems designed to fracture and exclude?
Can materials connect me to place?
I couldn't escape the truth that I didn't belong there.