I partnered up with Parker Kuncl(M4), Christopher Ward(M1), and Ping Tsung Li(M1) with the goal in mind to create an interpretation of our experience on our Dialectical Tour. We had 32 hours to mesh our brains together to construct and prepare a presentation.

What did we learn? What was discovered? How were we going to articulate the unspoken connections that were weaving back and forth in our four minds? LA...LA...a place constructed of networks both simple and complicated, visible and invisible. A virtual web of consumption and reproduction, of supply and demand. If part of the network were to fall apart or delay, a domino effect of short circuitry would occur not just in LA, but throughout the nation - this would be the worst traffic jam LA would experience.

We decided to contruct something that looked like a shipping container. Instead of it being encased in metal, it would be wrapped in strings that represented the endless networks of LA. Our shipping container was called "CONSUMER," representing the idea that what goes on outside or inside the container are acts of consumption. To consume, to be consumed...