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The coronavirus pandemic is already shaping home design trends, with special-function rooms and products that serve needs particular to the pandemic rising in popularity, according to a recent survey by the American Institute of Architects.

Every year, the institute surveys about 425 individual architects or firms in the business of custom-home building or renovation. Participants are asked to indicate whether requests for certain types of rooms and products are increasing, decreasing or stable. Trends are identified by noting the increases and offsetting them by the decreases. This years results were gathered in July.

I wont say it was unexpected, said Kermit Baker, the organizations chief economist and a senior research fellow at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Id say surprising in the sense that the pandemic response was happening faster than we might have expected.

In this years survey, 68 percent of respondents cited increasing client requests for home offices, and none reported a decrease. Compare that with the 2019 results, which showed a 33 percent increase and 4 percent decrease. A related feature, enhanced or task lighting, also gained popularity.

Specifically, there were more requests for sunrooms or three-season porches (rooms that bring nature indoors) and mud rooms or drop zones (areas to isolate contaminated items from the house at large). Tellingly, in the midst of a pandemic caused by an airborne virus, products for improving indoor air quality were newly popular: 41 percent of respondents cited an increase for such requests, while 2 percent indicated they were on the decline, compared with 27 percent increasing and 2 percent decreasing last year.

Other new trends included exercise or yoga rooms and flexible spaces for home-schooling or other needs. Other special-function rooms (outdoor living spaces among them) maintained their popularity or edged up, as did products that were low maintenance and energy efficient.

This weeks chart shows which home features were the most popular and how requests for them rose or fell in 2019 and 2020.

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The Architect and the Public: On George Baird's Contribution to Architecture

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The event is the first of a series of conversations to launch the recently published book The Architect and the Public: On George Baird's Contribution to Architecture (Quodlibet, 2020). The first group of speakers moderated by Roberto Damiani, the book editor, includes Brigitte Shim as a discussant and the volume contributors Joan Ockman, Richard Sommer, Hans Ibelings, Michael Piper, and Andrew Choptiany.

Discussant: Brigitte Shim (Daniels Faculty)

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Globe Life Field steps into the brightest spotlight in baseball when the World Series starts tonight in Arlington.

Its also a big moment for an architect with Dallas-based HKS.

Been with the firm for 12 years and very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work on something as significant as Globe Life Field, said Fred Ortiz, principal at HKS.

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Ortiz was the lead designer on the billion-dollar ballpark - the largest project to date for a man who grew up wanting to do two things: play football and be an architect.

Ortiz was raised in El Paso, the oldest of five brothers born to parents who immigrated from Mexico. He played baseball with his brothers and other boys in his neighborhood. It was high school football, though, that led to a dream that someday he could be a tight end for the Dallas Cowboys.

He got close. He got to Arlington where the University of Texas at Arlington awarded him a football scholarship. He was in his freshman year when a knee injury sidelined him then the program was sidelined permanently. It was the last year UTA had football.

Ortiz stayed in Arlington and earned a degree in architecture. Now years later, he's the star player on the HKS team that designed the ballpark where the new World Series Champ will be crowned.

A moment of pride, right? Satisfaction. And we tend to put a lot of time and effort into these things. So, once they're built and you see it come to fruition, it is just amazing and more gratifying when you see it being used as it was intended to be used, Ortiz, 53, said.

The architect and design director finally got to see it in use last week and watch a limited number of fans take it all in. As he watched them, his mind also went back to his childhood and an understanding that this accomplishment was not his alone. I thought about how I wasnt just doing this for myself but also for my family, Ortiz told The Dallas Morning News. My dad always pushed us to take pride in our name. Yes, there was personal pride, but it was an overarching family pride.

With coronavirus blowing the big debut of Globe Life Field this season and now capacity limited, most people can along see the ballpark on TV. While there's generous praise, the designer looks forward to the day people can see and appreciate all the work that went into it.

I continue to get notes, texts, 'Wow! It looks great on TV, Ortiz said. Theres so many great things about the project and one of my favorites happens to be the 1,000-foot long, 100-foot high wall that fronts onto Nolan Ryan Expressway. It has a really beautiful plaza and there's these beautiful arches and you get a different vantage point not only into the ballpark but out towards the district and it has these awesome balcony seats that give you great views of the field.

Just as he relied on teammates on the baseball and football fields, Ortiz is quick to credit the players who executed the plans.

Ive been practicing for over 30 years and, it never fails to amaze me, that for me, its so easy to draw things on paper; to come up with ideas, he said, but it's very humbling to see the contractors, right? All those individuals that actually have a hand in building, physically building these structures we create and visualize.

As a designer, Ortiz creates big vision ideas and sketches them all the way down to details. Its a metaphor for his life. His big vision all those years ago growing up in El Paso was to be an architect. His career took him to other firms and in 2007, it brought him back to North Texas and the project just miles away from the university that helped him believe the dreams of a boy drawing in the dirt all those years ago could come true.

I was blessed with an ability to draw, right? And so, I did that quite a bit, he said. Somehow to think over 40 years later, here I am having been a part of a huge team that's doing great things for Major League Baseball. Im thankful for opportunities such as this. Its a blessing. Its not just one guy leading the entire thing. There are several players.

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This project is a little above and beyond simple DIY tasks, but dont let it alarm you. Well help you get your project rolling in no time, and soon your space will have a sleek, new drop ceiling. The best part? Weve got special tips and materials to make this more advanced DIY project something that youll feel confident tackling yourself.

Possibly the hardest part of any drop ceiling installation is the planning and preparation. Weve got a lot of resources that will help you get your project started right. Think figuring out how many ceiling panels youll need or learning more about how to get your borders right. Here are some resources if youre still in the process of choosing which drop ceiling to install, or learning more about the process.

QUICKHANG Grid Hook Kits come with hooks, brackets and nails, and are a faster and easier way to install a drop ceiling vs. traditional hanger wire. These handy kits mean you only need to mark off intervals where youll install the brackets, nail in the brackets, and then thread in the pre-bent, heavy-duty hooks that will support the grid. Heres what you need to know about using QUICKHANG Grid Hook Kits:

Each kit covers approximately 160 sq. ft. of ceiling space (depending on room dimensions)

These joist-mounted brackets save headroom -- only 2.5 of drop needed

You can use the Grid Hook Kits with any standard grid system

Its important to note that these kits do not include ceiling grid, molding, or ceiling panels.

QUICKHANG Grid Hook Kits are extremely easy to adjust, too. Say for example, your ceiling joists are a bit uneven (most are). You can easily move the hooks up and down to level out the ceiling, without the hassle of untying and retying hanger wire. All you need to do is squeeze the bracket tabs and make the necessary changes.. Another great benefit of this system - you can adjust your ceiling up or down based on obstructions like pipes and ductwork --again, just by squeezing the bracket tabs and adjusting the hooks.

QUICKHANG Installation Kits take things a step further and provide all the hooks, brackets and nails, plus all the ceiling grid and wall molding youll need to cover approximately 64 sq. ft. of space. (Ceiling panels are sold separately.) These convenient kits make installing a drop ceiling an easy DIY project. Here are a few things you need to know about QuickHang Installation Kits:

Installation kits are available for either 2 x 2 or 2 x 4 ceiling panels

If you need just a few extra pieces, you can buy them separately

Kits make single-person installation a snap, especially because of the lightweight, easy-to-handle 6 main beams

The specially coated metal pieces are easy to cut with tin snips

Like the QUICKHANG Grid Hook Kits, these full installation kits give you flexibility in how you install your ceiling, giving you the leeway to account for uneven ceiling surfaces and obstructions.

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HOPE A comprehensive energy use and savings plan proposed for the Hope Public Schools, including construction of a 1.13 megawatt AC solar array owned by the school district, was accepted Monday by the Hope Board of Education.

Total cost savings projected from all aspects of the overall plan for electrical, water, HVAC use/repair-replacement, and capital avoidance costs is estimated at $225,000 per year.

The proposal is from Entegrity Partners of Fayetteville and contains nine components including lighting upgrades, solar energy, water conservation improvement, HVAC equipment replacement, HVAC equipment tune-ups, HVAC control, sustainability education, water piping repair (Clinton Primary School), and acoustical ceiling installation with LED lighting at Yerger Middle School.

Entegrity representative John Coleman told the board in a Zoom conference the company is ready to proceed with the second phase of the project.

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October 22, 2020

The ASU Art Museum is exploring light as an artistic medium in several ways this semester.

Traditional Stories of Light is a new all-ages coloring book thats available for free at the ASU Art Museum or to download. The project is a collaboration of the museum and three Native American artists: Vanessa Moreno, who is Purpecha and Tepehun, designed the book, which was illustratrated by Eunique Yazzie, who is Navajo, and Dustin Lopez, who is Navajo, Yacqui and Laguna Pueblo.

Artist Leo Villareal will debut a work in mid-November that uses technology to harness light and is unique to the ASU Art Museum.

And on Dec. 22, the ASU Art Museum will hold a Sunrise Light Walk, a guided walk that explores features on the Tempe campus using the four cardinal directions as a guide.

These projects exploring light are in addition to ASUs ongoing relationship with James Turrell, a renowned artist who is creating a masterpiece of light at Roden Crater, a large-scale installation in northern Arizona. Turrell has created several smaller scale works that also manipulate the viewers sense of light, and one of those, Air Apparent, is on ASUs Tempe campus.

The use of light in art goes back centuries, according to Miki Garcia, director of the museum.

The notion of light as it refers to the heavens or God or transcendence, and, within individual cultures, light as a source of energy and life has a deep, rich history, she said.

Turrell has shaped his Roden Crater installation, inside a volcanic cinder cone, to become a natural camera obscura.

In his work, he sees light as a material the way you would see oil or pastel or bronze as a material you can shape to experience different visual and body sensations, Garcia said.

Villareal works with light from a technology perspective, using LED bulbs and computer programming to create illuminations. For the new work, debuting in mid-November, Villareal did three-dimensional mapping of the ASU Art Museum building and used the data to create an active light work that will be specific to the museum.

The Native Stories of Light project was an intentional effort to expand the consideration of light beyond the work of Turrell and Villareal, Garcia said.

Were making a very concerted effort to make sure that all of our programming is considering our place in Arizona, she said.

Were not just Any Museum USA. Were in a site that is on Tohono Oodham land. So this is an example of how were trying to move the museum toward a more open and inclusive and accessible space so we can be a museum for all.

Yazzie, one of the coloring book illustrators, has long incorporated light as a medium. She uses metallic paper to create floor-to-ceiling installations that shimmer.

I do artwork thats reflective and has some sort of iridescence to it. Its like Im weaving light, she said.

The coloring book is a different take on how light can be introduced by either traditional stories or by having an Indigenous narrative.

Yazzie and Lopez had heard their own communities traditional stories, but they also researched other narratives.

In Arizona, there are a ton of stories we can choose from, but I dont know all the traditional stories for all 24 tribes in Arizona, she said.

We were thinking about sources of light fire, the stars, sun and moon. Those are symbols we looked for in other narratives, and a lot of those symbols are in every tribal creation story, which we call emergence.

Yazzie said that Lopez contacted traditional storytellers in different tribes and the artists learned the most appropriate ways to create the book, for example, by using only parts of stories.

For traditional stories like the ones illustrated in the coloring book, some of them are not within the time frame to be telling the story. For most tribal nations, the story time is during the winter, she said. The first frost is when you can begin telling your cultural stories.

We learned the background and the cultural significance and how we could reproduce it in the best way without stepping on traditional belief systems, said Yazzie, who also recorded voice-overs for an app that will be available to accompany the sunrise walk on Dec. 22.

On Oct. 25 at 10 a.m. Yazzie and Moreno will participate in a Zoom conversation with Kathryn Medill, the audience experience coordinator for the museum.

In the spring 2021 semester, Marc Neveu, head of the architecture program in The Design School at ASU, will teach an iCourse titled, Turrell and Roden Crater: Art, Design and Tech. The course has no prerequisites and is open to anyone.

Top image: A portion of the cover image from Traditional Stories of Light, a coloring book designed by Vanessa Moreno and illustrated by Eunique Yazzie and Dustin Lopez, in collaboration with the ASU Art Museum.

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WESTWOOD, Mass., Oct. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As school administrators across the country prepare their facilities for winter months, enVerid Systems, a leading provider of indoor air quality solutions, announced today that its in-room, commercial-grade, ceiling-mounted, True HEPA air purifiers are ready for rapid deployment to schools investing in COVID-19 risk mitigation. The enVerid Air Purifier's HEPA filtration has been proven to capture 99.99% of viruses, including a surrogate for the virus that causes COVID-19.

In early October, the CDC updated its COVID-19 guidelines to acknowledge what many scientists and indoor air quality (IAQ) experts have suggested for several months airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus can occur in enclosed, poorly ventilated spaces. To mitigate COVID-19 risks, experts recommend 4-6 air changes per hour (ACH) in rooms to improve indoor air quality and help ensure the safety of students, teachers and staff. However, many schools struggle to meet this benchmark, especially if buildings have poor ventilation or outdated HVAC systems. The enVerid Air Purifier provides a cost-effective way to boost air change rates on top of the building's existing methods by 4-5 times per hour.

"The COVID-19 pandemic is shining the spotlight on indoor air quality like never before and school administrators are facing mounting pressure to identify effective, budget-efficient solutions to keep their schools safe and healthy year-round," said Christian Weeks, CEO of enVerid Systems. "Building upon a decade of experience in the industry, the enVerid Air Purifier helps schools quickly and cost-effectively reduce the risk of airborne virus transmission with a long-term solution for improving indoor air quality."

"Schools need simple, easy-to-install and effective ways to increase air change rates in the classroom, and proven solutions like the enVerid Air Purifier offer school communities peace of mind without becoming a distraction in the learning environment," said Marwa Zaatari, PhD, ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force member and advisory board member for enVerid. "Due to its permanent, ceiling-mounted design, the enVerid Air Purifier works quietly in the background, enabling teachers to focus on teaching. And because it's mounted on the ceiling in the center of the room, it offers more reliable air mixing and airflow patterns, which can expedite virus removal and improve overall effectiveness relative to portable options."

"With respect to air cleaners for airborne pathogens, there is a very clear hierarchy of performance," says Raefer Wallis, founder of RESET, an international third-party standard that has tracked the air quality of the highest performing projects in the world for almost a decade. "At the very top, we find ceiling-mounted filtration systems that allow for a very high level of control in specific areas because they are ducted and unobstructed by objects in a room. This is extremely important for issues like COVID, where aerosolized viruses can be removed at the source. The next level down is portable filters, which are 20-50% less effective than their ceiling mounted counterparts mainly due to challenges with placement in a space. Last is traditional central filtration systems, which force virus particles to travel a long distance prior to being removed. We are very excited to see enVerid continue to bring best-in-class solutions to market, enabling the achievement of higher indoor air quality standards at such a critical time."

A Better Solution for Cleaning School Air

The enVerid Air Purifier is both easy to install and cost-effective, removing virus particles from indoor air without the significant expense of upgrading HVAC systems and the "energy penalty" typically associated with conditioning higher volumes of outside air. Unlike filtration-only solutions, it combines a True HEPA filter with optional UVC lamps to both capture and kill viruses. Each unit comes with a wall-mounted LCD display panel for easy monitoring and control.

Compared to portable air purifiers, enVerid's ceiling-mounted units provide facility managers and school administrators a better solution for cleaning indoor air, saving valuable floor space in classrooms, and allowing for more flexible room placement that minimizes noise and optimizes air flow. Benefits include:

Additional information about the enVerid Air Purifier can be found here.

About enVerid Systems, Inc. enVerid helps buildings achieve ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), healthy building, and cost saving goals by improving indoor air quality while saving money and reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions. For new HVAC systems, enVerid's award-winning HVAC Load Reduction (HLR) Modules enable immediate capital cost savings. HLR Modules also deliver up to 30% energy savings and superior indoor air quality in new and existing buildings. enVerid's air filtration products remove particulate and microorganism contamination from indoor air without the significant cost of upgrading mechanical systems and increasing mechanical ventilation rates. enVerid's products are deployed in commercial, academic and government buildings globally. enVerid's HLR Modules are ASHRAE Standard 62.1, LEED, and WELL compliant and eligible for utility rebates. For more information please visit https://enverid.com.

Contact: Marian Hughes, [emailprotected], 708-421-0083

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Espoo, Finland & Santa Clara, California Airbus' Defence and Space production hall in Warsaw, Poland recently had a smart lighting upgrade. SchahlLED led the project with Filamento fixtures and Casambi controls taking on their first European co-installation. The new lighting scheme has produced fantastic results, with Airbus reporting 1.6x higher light levels at 71% energy savings, as well as noticeable improvements in worker wellbeing and general productivity.

For the modernization of the hall, SchahlLED made a thorough analysis of possible solutions. In keeping with Airbus high standards, SchahlLED as the pioneer and leader in intelligent lighting concepts, chose Casambi, the Europeans market leader in BLE wireless lighting controls, integrated into Filamento, the US innovator of High Bay Lighting, as the solution.

The production hall now has 150 Filamento VALTO Series 600 fixtures with Casambi-enabled devices (luminaires and sensors), divided into five groups, with a high bay presence sensor controlling each group with a light sensor under the skylight, pointing upward; this measures the daylight level and adjusts the light intensity as needed.

Additionally, the presence sensors call these scenes on movement detected in one of five areas. When no motion is detected, the light intensity automatically decreases in a linear function. All luminaries communicate wirelessly via a Bluetooth Low Energy mesh network, enabling effortless management and control. At a ceiling height of 11m, the installation effort was made easier since each fixture is only 1.85kg.

Casambi Global Head of Key Account Management, Tom Heider, says, "Using Filamento VALTO fixtures integrated with Casambi made it easy to create groups of different luminaires, program them, and manage the lighting easily via the Casambi app. Furthermore, the connectivity via Casambi saved time and money in installing the plant and using the Casambi lighting switch without the need for cables".

Frank Shum, CEO of Filamento, says, "We are happy to demonstrate Filamento's unique capabilities with world-class customers such as Airbus and partners such as Casambi. We look forward to many more future projects".

Casambi

Casambi is changing the way people and businesses light their surroundings. Since 2011, the Finland-based company has established itself as the leading producer of wireless lighting control systems, using technology based on Bluetooth Low Energy. A dynamic user experience, excellent reliability, and unparalleled performance are already enjoyed via hundreds of third-party ecosystem providers. Casambis technology can be integrated into anything from individual lighting fixturecontrols to industrial-scale solutions with cloud-based remote control, monitoring,and data logging.

Filamento

Founded in 2014 in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, Filamento is guided by the leadership of Frank Shum. Frank's forward-thinking, relentless pursuit of improvement and uncompromising drive to innovate is what has set Filamento apart. Before launching Filamento, Frank was the General Manager and Chief Designer for Soraa's groundbreaking products. Frank's innovations have been internationally recognized by many prestigious organizations with a myriad of awards, including Red Dot, SIL Sapphire, Lighting and Architecture Magazine, LightFair International, LuxLive, DOE Lighting for Tomorrow, and more. With more than 100 patents to his name, Frank has and continues to demonstrate an unrivaled legacy of innovation. Much more than a manufacturer of industrial lighting solutions, Filamento is a visionary company focused on creating a brighter future.

SchalLED

SchahlLED stands for intelligent LED and is Europe's pioneer in intelligent LED lighting installations for the industry. Our core values are: to be passionate, committed, and solution-driven. We have over 50 years in the lighting business with 20 years in LED and over 700 smart LED projects. We are customer-orientated, and every solution is specifically designed according to customer needs. We are proud to have extensive cooperation with market-leading suppliers with the latest technology.

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A cherry picker has been installed inside the building on Morecambe prom, and every panel in the ceiling of the Grade 2* listed building will be inspected by specialists before being cleaned.

This process is expected to take two weeks, before work starts on installing a new heating system on November 1.

Plasterwork repair work will also take place as part of the refurbishment of the theatre.

The theatre is now just 1,000 from its fundraising target.

The Architectural Heritage Fund has promised to match fund the fundraising up to 25,000, and the theatre has now raised just over 24,000.

With the closure of the building for four months and limited re-opening due to the Covid-19 restrictions, the Preservation Trust with the help of the Friends of the Winter Gardens mounted a crowdfunding campaign.

Their aim was to complete the funding necessary for the 250,000 infrastructure work.

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It doesnt matter where Diana Thaters latest installation is located; you cant visit the piece in person. Like many gallery shows during the pandemic, Yes, There Will Be Singing is only viewable online.

Initially, I wanted to put the installation at David Zwirner in a locked room, says the L.A.-based artist of her exhibition, the third edition of the gallerys Offsite series. But David said, Its a piece for anyone, anywhere. It doesnt matter where it is.

The video work is instead being livestreamed from a raw space in L.A., a room with white pillars and exposed ceiling pipes. Its the sort of space that can be found in almost any city, and the universality of the room speaks to the intention behind the work. Thaters installations have always been about the present moment, and the viewers presence and experience within the work. While Yes, There Will Be Singing is the artists least physically accessible project, its also her most accessible: the video installation is viewable anytime, anywhere in the world.

She describes the new piece as an upending. Thater was originally slated to have a solo show with David Zwirner in September, but that plan was thwarted when her shoot for the exhibition was canceled due to the pandemic. Travel has been central to her art practice; she physically goes to wherever her subjects live in order to film them.

How do you make art, if part of your practice is going to places where these rare and fascinating [creatures] live in the wild? What do you do? she says. And thats where I ended up with Whale 52.

Yes, There Will Be Singing is Thaters first sound installation, inspired by an article she encountered several years ago about Whale 52, a (likely male) whale which has never been seen, only heard over a period of decades. At a frequency of 52 hertz, Whale 52s songs are outside the range for other whales to hear its been called the loneliest whale alive.

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The piece speaks to the difficulties of communication in isolation. In the case of Whale 52, its the unique pitch of his song that other whales cant hear; during the pandemic, its the pain points of technology: video feeds that lag; audio that wont sync.

We only know each other right now through images, brief contact. We know each other on the computer through Zoom and Google Meet and FaceTime, says Thater; her installation similarly lives within the space of online time.

Within Thaters installation, the rich sound of Whale 52 plays as the video switches between various feeds within the room, giving the viewer a 360-degree view of the exhibition space as well as the sensation of spinning. The equipment used to make the piece cameras on tripods, sound speakers and cords running across the floor, stage lights emitting a spectrum of neon color is visible to the viewer, an attempt to communicate the spatial quality of the space, despite their disorientation from the alternating video feeds. The culmination of all the elements in the room becomes a conduit for the underwater world.

[The whale] world is rich in sound; ours is rich in color and dimension, she says. I wanted to add to that richness and make empty space feel like something.

The piece also speaks to how the pandemic has affected the natural environment. While the pandemic has made it more difficult for humans to communicate clearly, the opposite is true for whales.

The ocean has been very quiet since the beginning of the pandemic. Researchers can hear whales better than ever before, and whales can hear one another better than they ever have, she says. All the external noise is gone, and what do you get?

The installations title, Yes, There Will Be Singing, refers to a poem written by Bertolt Brecht while in Denmark after escaping Nazi Germany. It lent the perfect title to the work, because we are living in very dark times, says Thater. You think about being locked down, and then according to Bertolt Brecht, you sing about it.

The artist notes that her world is still very much in flux. Shes been working on a larger piece for over two years, but keeps running into roadblocks: first President Donald Trump closed National Parks during a government shutdown right before she was supposed to go film in Death Valley, and then the pandemic happened, and she had to cancel her shoot again. Thater was testing her arsenal of cameras for that shoot by filming within her garden; that collection of videos, focusing on the flora, ended up in an online exhibition with Hauser and Wirth.

While her work stays rooted in the present moment, Thater approaches art making with the future in mind.

I think that art is about the future you want, and projecting it and making it real and making it palpable, she says. I havent been able to sculpt an image of what I think the future looks like during this lockdown, because were in this never-ending present. We literally do not know whats going to happen.

Without some kind of idea about what the future holds, I dont know what Ill make next, she adds.

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