Kasey Short

About the Work

Scrappler: Paroxysmal Shelter is a solo exhibition that draws from models of suburban housing and systems of construction found in developing rural landscapes. Centered on ideas of shelter, the project began with a miniature architectural model that evolved through an ongoing process of transformation, expanding from small-scale experiments into immersive installation.

The work investigates the tension between familiar and unfamiliar environments. Through acts of dismantling, rebuilding, and reconfiguration, structures remain in a constant state of becoming, resisting fixed forms and stable identities.

I am interested in how technology shapes the ways we interpret, construct, and deconstruct both nature and the built environment. Using photography, video, photogrammetry, and digital processes, I explore glitches and disruptions within landscapes undergoing rapid development due to housing expansion.

Construction sites became a primary area of investigation. Existing between permanence and impermanence, order and disorder, these spaces reveal the material consequences of growth while exposing the extraction and transformation of land into architecture.

Within the project, the construction site becomes a conditional territory inhabited by the performer known as the “Scrappler” — a figure who collects objects, gathers data, and moves between physical and digital worlds. Acting as a scavenger, archivist, and smuggler of materials, the Scrappler transforms found information into sculptural forms, installations, and evolving environments.