This was a third year editorial design project that combats spatial injustice both in South Africa and globally.
My take on the topic drew on concepts like hauntology and agential realism, “cryptic//cities” aims to blur the boundaries between bodies and the spaces they inhabit.
I used an except from Dawney, Kirwan, & Brigstocke's Space, Power and the Commons: The Struggle for Alternative Futures, (2016:1-27). The article is critical of the anthropocenticism of spatial justice and proposes the commons as intangible, involving non/living actants and being temporal.
The imagery was created by placing hand cut letters on tracing paper. By angling the tracing paper differently in relation to the light, the cut out letters cast soft and hard lines, overlapping and merging with their surroundings. Through digital editing, these letters became sombre ghosts or vibrant spirits, which ties perfectly into hauntology and agential realism.
