Presented Salone Drift today — a story of Freetown growing along the coast while slowly eating its own shoreline. At John Obey, sand is livelihood and loss, memory and future. A city remaking itself, grain by grain. #salonedrift image of 1899 Ross malaria map transposed onto John obey beach
Masonry fragments of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, which contributed to the fragmentation of Freetown’s urban landscape, to be reconstituted in a representation of the city as it has been fragmented #salonedrift
Test cnc negative mould of urban Freetown. Then 30 more to mill. And 30 to cast #salonedrift coming soon-ish 🤞
Blueprints showing outlines of the guilded mosquito vectors for LSTHM building, dated 1929. Image courtesy of @lshtm.bsky.social and part of exhibition on colonial trade, tropical medicine networks impact on urban/architectural form of Sierra Leone. In planning with RIBA due late 2025 #Salonedrift
Test print scale model of colonial ‘hill station’ bungalow for #salonedrift. Eerie solidness. Windowless. Almost tomblike. Underscores an object imposed from outwith. An impenetrable archive.
