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Chanel is a new artist and designer from Toronto, Ontario. She is a 2022 honours graduate of OCAD University where she completed her B.Des. in Environmental Design. Currently, she is based in Metro Detroit where she is pursuing an M.Arch. at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has continuously been interested in exploring the role of architecture and design in the frame of neighbourhood care and cultural resilience. Much of her work is an ode to Chinatown, family, placekeeping, memories, and the spatial qualities and tendencies these take on. That said, the ways in which ephemeral and unseen spaces can be honoured are put into question by placing emphasis on gaps, voids, blurriness, and absence. Connecting herself to spaces she feels removed from, making spaces out of nothing, storing a mental image for later - curiosity and the act of noticing are the activating modes the work is intended to be found through. Her illustration, map-making, and installation become projection tools for research and conversation surrounding belonging. Although at times transparent material is used to represent it, the quality of non-clarity shows an embrace of certain opacities in space, barriers in what we see, experience, and our impressions of place. Acting as exercises to look between the lines, to look a little bit deeper, her works address the layering of identity and how such nuances occupy space.