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@ New Haven Night Market
Friday, July 25, 2025 5PM-10PM
Installed through the heat and rain of the 2025 New Haven Night Market, our first construction project was an exercise in reclamation. Built from Facebook Marketplace pallets and refined over hundreds of hours at Makehaven, this kiosk invited the community to become co-designers.
We view reclaimed materials as storytellers; their previous lives are visible in every weathered grain. In a special collaboration with the non-profit EcoWorks, we used the kiosk as a platform to share the narrative of material circularity with locals. By adding new layers of painting and writing, the people of New Haven helped us turn waste into a living monument of a shared moment in time.
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This space is built from reclaimed pallets. Each element here wears its history on its sleeve.
Each scratch, stain, and faded edge is a reminder of where it’s been and what has touched it.
Think of it as a living canvas, weathered by the years. It drank in water from the earth and sky; it grew into a tree. It was harvested, cut, given new purpose: to carry, to store artifacts.
It absorbed more rain, swelled and shrank with the seasons, slowly warped under the burden it bore and polished by the hands that bore it in turn.
Now the weight is gone—but the wood still holds its shape, bent by memory. It remembers in its posture, in the way it breaks.
Now it’s your turn.
We invite you to make your mark—draw, paint, write. What new layers will you give the wood to carry? Add your story to this community artwork.