Tectonic is a series of woven map-forms that challenge our inherited assumptions about geography, power, and belonging. Crafted from salvaged wood, industrial rope, and found materials, each piece reimagines the shape of a continent or region—dislocated from global norms and suspended in tension.
By distorting the familiar language of maps, Tectonic invites viewers to “look up and see what we are standing on.” The hexagonal frames echo both tectonic plates and sacred geometry, while the ropework draws on traditional Japanese craft techniques. Midori, a queer Japanese American artist and veteran, reclaims cast-off materials as an act of cultural recovery and ecological awareness.
This series resists a singular point of view—offering instead a shifting, centerless terrain that invites curiosity, humility, and multiplicity. In doing so, Tectonic becomes not only a portrait of the world, but a meditation on memory, disorientation, and the possibility of belonging in a fractured landscape.
