Project by Camryn Locascio
The Masque of Attunement is an architectural inquiry into suburban dissonance. Drawing from John Hejduk’s Lancaster/Hanover Masque, the project treats drawing and transcription as methods of attunement, revealing how subjects, objects, gestures, and adjacencies quietly structure everyday life. Attentive to conditions described by Fredric Jameson and David Harvey—where consumption multiplies, meaning dissolves, and space conforms to capital—the project reads suburban Orlando as a landscape calibrated to absorb excess rather than sustain care.
Rooted in lived experience of American suburbia, the work draws from memory, observation, and filmic reference (The Florida Project) to trace “quiet catastrophes” embedded in familiar scenes: storage corridors, vacant lots, pastel motels, and unstable utilities. These “"moments preceding rupture”“ feel ordinary and navigable, yet remain perpetually close to instability. Shifting from observation to intervention, the Care Depot questions the self-storage industry’s prioritization of goods over people. Funded by abandoned storage and surplus items, it redirects excess toward shared, small-scale infrastructures of care—interrupting rupture by making support accessible before crisis.
