Copper, wire, film negatives, and photographs, 2024

Dial +1 is an archive of resistance built from the debris of my photographic practice—discarded prints, fractured negatives, and industrial scrap—transformed into a tactile record of collective struggle. Etched copper plates, suspended film, and wired metal fragments mirror the fragility and persistence of the movements they document.

Born from witnessing the 2024 anti-genocide demonstrations across the Midwest, the work traces acts of defiance from campus quads to city streets, capturing gestures where body and banner, chant and artifact blur. Here, waste becomes witness; corroded metals and emulsions speak to the labor of sustaining resistance. Dial +1 does not monumentalize—it exposes the weight of what remains unfinished.