“A body of projects that are united by the theme of collective making. The second semester of my thesis was an intense grappling with the community I was going to lose by no longer being a student. Everything I have done, and everything that has shaped my praxis has been though interactions with my kin and community at this institution; from starting the OCADU 25' pandemic discord server in first year, to completing a project with the same person who helped me create the server back in 2021. Each piece represents a deeper yearning for a leaf that is starting to fall off a tree. It's difficult to comprehend how this yearning can be communicated visually, other than to just—make. Make with our community for our survival, make with our community to understand, deconstruct, resist and reconstruct the systems that hold us back, that stop our access, that incentivize profit and productivity over support and collective responsibility. None of these projects would have been the way they are if one of us were not involved...And there is a childlike wonder in that acceptance. In the acceptance that design and art isn't to serve, or solve it is to share, and attend to each other. I'd like to thank everyone who helped me in this process, our memories live on in the paper, in the fabrics and in the pixels of our work. I would also acknowledge that this collective effort to sustain ourselves and the community around us, should not and will not end at the human. Our collective responsibility is to this planet, and to everything that moves with, in and through it.”