“My process-based senior thesis project investigates objects that once existed in close proximity to the human body and facilitated comfort within domestic spaces. Once discarded or resold, these objects are reabsorbed into ecosystems of anonymous exchange, retaining only traces of their former use and ownership. I am interested in the processes of dispossession that render such objects into mere matter and open them to reinterpretation according to their physical properties. For this project, materials were sourced through resale platforms such as Facebook Marketplace and MaxSold.com. Drawing from my research in actor-network theory, postdramatic theatre, the history of new media, and the hidden mechanisms that permit the smooth functioning of everyday devices, I have constructed a moving assemblage of interrelated sculptures that act as embryonic media technologies. They adopt the forms of receivers, probes, and barriers, and draw from my familiarity in vernacular or ''improvised'' forms of technology such as those found in DIY engineering content on YouTube. Objects are ground, pulped, or otherwise dematerialized and reconstituted in processes of ''unworlding'' and ''reworlding'' that estrange and reconfigure them according to their many affordances. The resulting devices imply a potential for sound, speech, or communication, yet fail to successfully address. Their operations suggest attempts at contact with an absent subject whose presence can only be inferred through the material traces of the original object. Their staged setting departs from a news article reported in the Toronto Star in 1980 that describes a noise dispute between neighbours that was eventually resolved through mediation. Central to this project has been the series of latent connections between industrial recycling and construction and the production of fiction: both produce or at least posit the emergence of new worlds from a subset of fixed materials and grammars; both have at their end a determined user; and the social bonds both strive to produce frequently fail to materialize. ”