From 2020 to 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic, around 100 new works were created in loose succession, reigniting a series initially begun in 2001. As a kind of diary, these collages experimentally explore the layers of negotiation within envelope data protection patterns: between inside and outside, legibility and concealment, discretion and exposure.
Like the paper envelopes, a building envelope is not just a functional layer—it is a layer with a climatic, technological, and aesthetic purpose, but also a precise strategy responding to questions of the transparency, delimitation, porosity, and permeability of borders. This layer is experimentally spatialized with the short.cut Data Collages and defined as a location that makes this ambivalence and its communicative aspect an actual architectural experience.