Architectures of (Ex) Foliation 

The provocation ‘Architecture of (Ex)foliation’ is: first, an ontological excursion into the ways in which monsoons wetness weaves into the rhythms and temporalities of everyday life; second, a proposal to dismantle the fiction of static and stable surfaces that cartographic imaginations have provided for design inquiry; third, an exploration to enlarge climate knowledge to consider cities as an intertwined expression of biophysical and sociopolitical phenomena. The key question here is: How does wetness (in the case of an estuary) weave in (non-) human life to shape the forces and forms of (ex)foliation? The intent was to articulate and develop analogies about architectures of exfoliation shaping  (non-) human life as an exploration into a form of representation.

The Swirl of Feather Duster Worms:

They are filter feeders with a crown of tentacles over the head which help them sense light, water, and touch. 

The drawing captures the following instances:

1. the being in its shell at low tide

2. when it slowly reaches out of the shell with the arrival of water at the shore

3. the rotating movement- ‘swirl’ of its crown when completely submerged in water