Grounds Grids Grammar
Solo exhibition, Armstrong Gallery, Kent State CAED2026
Territory is not merely land, but a social construct shaped by histories of power and control. As a specific form of socially produced space it emerged from colonial advancements in cartography, political sovereignty and land ownership. This exhibition reveals how the modern sense of the term developed from those contexts. Territory is thus not merely an object, but the outcome of social relations imposed on land deemed accessible. Through a critique of that contingent and often chaotic evolutionary history, it redirects inherited formations toward a new language of territory — one that resists extractive impulses and understands land through an ethics of care.
An exhibition on succession, survey, and the drawing of territory.
Credits
Paul Mosley
Artist
Fields
Laure Nolte and Paul Mosley — Pyra
Joseph Perry
Artist — Perspective Renderings
Corbin Cunningham
Model Maker — Pyra, 1:12
Yi Cheung
Exhibition photography
Funding
This work is generously supported by Kent State University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the University Research Council (URC) Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program, and the University Teaching Council (UTC). Column footings for Pyra donated by Perma-Column, LLC.