Deep Current

We are world builders working at the intersection of design, research, and lived experience. As artists, educators, and collaborators rooted in both Baltimore and Brooklyn, our practice is shaped by a shared belief that the environments we inhabit — built and natural alike — hold stories worth examining, and futures worth imagining. Rooted in Baltimore and Brooklyn, we came to this work through different doors: one through the architecture of communities and the geometries of care, the other through the stories held in soil, street, and sea. We carry within us layered inheritances — Jamaican and first-generation American, Dutch, African American and Cherokee — histories that do not announce themselves in our work but quietly shape what we notice, what we mourn, and what we believe deserves to be remembered. As educators, we bring that same sensibility into the classroom, understanding design as a practice of asking better questions about the world we share.

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In projects such as Drift, Low Tide, and Nuovo Beach, we use installation as a mode of inquiry — asking what our coastlines, waterways, and urban edges are telling us, and what they might become. Climate awareness is not a backdrop to this work; it is the animating force. We are interested in the felt experience of environmental shift: the quiet transformations, the slow erosions, the moments of beauty and mourning that coexist within an unstable ecology. As designers, educators, and researchers, we resist the separation between art and action. Our installations invite public engagement not as spectacle, but as speculation — an opening for communities to sense, reflect, and reimagine their relationship to the natural world.