Abstract

COURT is a ceramic installation and written thesis that examines how space is held and what happens when that holding is tested. Space is understood as a lived and psychological condition shaped by bodies, objects, and systems of relation. Everyday operations such as stacking, storing, measuring, transporting, defending, and resting accumulate into infrastructures that guide patterns that dictate what can be maintained and what cannot. The project explores the fragility of infrastructures and the tension between individual and collective needs. Through an arrangement of ceramic spheres, COURT considers how meaning accumulates when a single form is repeatedly assembled into a larger co-dependent network. The installation appears stable yet remains at risk of collapse, revealing the ambivalence embedded in shared space.