the art of lingering
PRATT INSTITUTE
SENIOR THESIS MAY 2025
Somewhere along the line, the presence of black in a fixed white page became really important to me.
Identified Problem
This project began as a way for me to question and challenge the conventional role of graphic design as a fleeting, commercial tool by investigating its potential to represent and manipulate time. Inspired by the notion of lingering and how experiences extend beyond the moment, existing between presence, absence, and incompleteness.
Solution
Testing systems, interactions, and hierarchy to see how design can reform over time extending beyond their immediate presence.
Through autoethnographic research, I translate the intersection of physical and mental into a modular, spatial taxonomy. Lingering becomes tangible as both a question and structure: a space where presence is never fixed, but continually re-formed, remembered, and reassembled.
2D to 3D to 2D.
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