30lbs of Small Bags of Classic Lay’s Chips

May 2022, Princeton NJ

Interactive Sculpture

Part of IfWorks’ Practice

If we find a mound in the forests, six feet long and three feet wide, formed into a pyramid by a shovel, we become serious and something within us says, "Someone lies buried here." This is architecture. —Adolf Loos, “Architecture“ (1910) [1975]

This is a work about happiness and depression, about sharing and sharing burdens. It intervenes with the interrogation of what is “architecture“ in Loos’ classic quote, revealing the arbitrariness of architectural communication and meaning-making through “types,“ based on emotion, form, context, function, construction, living/dead individual/collective memory among others. Visitors are welcome to take away the bags of Lays.