This book documents a process of exploration into the concept of division with quick model studies. The documented images of these models were then manipulated to make them as flat as possible, reducing the perception of depth, prior to transformation and insertion into the medium of the book.

The process began with the creation of models with the constraint that they could be made using only a single sheet of chipboard with no glue and no waste. These “single sheet” exercises, on the most basic metaphorical level, could express ideas related to war, disconnection, and disruption, and hence, the existing spatial conditions of the DMZ. These spatial conditions by their nature might suggest the concepts of division, unification, and balanced asymmetry, while also elaborating on notions of blurring and mending. Then came a series of models using multiple materials, through which I was able to explore how this balanced asymmetry could be expressed not only though space, but also through texture and color,.The last series of concept models introduced the idea of “shifting”, to represent perspectival and spatial shifts necessary to reduce the monolithic to the intimate, and the tectonic shifts required to transform a hard line of division into a fuzzy liminal zone.