Frid Branham

I’m an artist/architect whose multidisciplinary body of work reflects on the conventions of the everyday. My work is informed by the relationship between our perception of nature, forms found within our surroundings, and how we engage through our daily routines/rituals. I use salvaged and single-use materials from home and community, to reflect these habitual rhythms, their environmental impacts and causing us to consider disposal.

The meditative drive to persevere to completed architectural documents is similar to the disciplined effort needed to sew, crochet, weave, or draw – working in multiples. Making becomes my guide and largest challenge, where the process becomes a struggle in duration and stamina.

I find the act of making freeing from traditional analytical boundaries. I choose to use mediums/methods historically defined as women’s work. I’m regularly reminded of gender differences and challenge perceptions of stamina and strength with the scale and duration of my pieces.