An etching of dense, hand-drawn lines printed in black ink depicting a row of tenements from the vantage point of the sidewalk in front of the buildings. 

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Dust Deferred: The Invisible Care and Humility in Maintaining Our Spaces

Sam Bennett is a 2023 Curationist Fellow. She is a repair artist, ethnographer, and designer with expertise in the fields of space, materials, and objects. She believes in slow research that minimally impacts our planet and advocates for human well-being. Her personal research is focused on consumerism, accumulation, and repair of objects in the domestic space and in the waste stream.  She is the founder of The Things We Keep, a collection of stories about people’s most special things. She also runs Clever/Slice, a space for creatives to share in-progress work, while dismantling the classic critique.  Most recently she co-created Repair Shop with Rachel Smith, which explores the line between object-based mending practices and other modes of “making do.” Currently, Sam is a sustainability strategist at Hyloh, collaborating on projects focused on New York City’s reuse systems. In 2022, she was a Maintainers Movement fellow and completed residencies at Pocoapoco in Oaxaca and LMCC on Governors Island. In her free time, she darns and writes letters on one of her five typewriters.