Finnegan Shannon

Building on Dana / Patterns in Space, 2025

Building on Dana / Patterns in Space

A plywood ramp with three arches. Each arch has a phrase in my handwriting. In the foreground “Ramps are beautiful,” then “Use is preservation,” and then “Form follows fantasy.” The shape of the arches is gothic (comes to a soft point at the peak).
A close up of my wallpaper installation that is 11x17 sheets of black and white printing on blue paper, taped up with a jaunty orange tape. It includes various crossed out stairs symbols and archival images.

  • About:
    An installation made for John Portman’s Dana Arts Building at Agnes Scott College — a very stair-forward piece of architecture. It is a series of arches to celebrate a new ramp and an Anti-Stairs Club Lounge wallpaper of sorts that mixes my drawings, archival images of disability activism and design, and images of the building itself (both promotional images from when it opened and contemporary photos).

    These were created for Building On Dana / Patterns In Space, Dalton Gallery, Decatur, GA

  • Year: 2025

  • Materials:  Wood, paint, original drawings, archival images of disability activism and design, and images of the building itself printed on paper

  • Photos by: Me