Chandler Shan

“Radicalizing Banality”

As a response to the culture of death denialism in America, Radicalizing Banality tries to construct a world where banal things become radicalized and confronts the American suburban residences with radical objects in an architectural setting. In this project, audiences were dwarfed by the excessive scale of the building elements at one moment, and then seemingly enlarged by them in the next by a perceptual shift to the scale of the personal objects of the deceased. This sequence invites the audience to contemplate the discrete objects that symbolize death from both a community and an immersive individual scale.