Erasing Boundaries: Reimagined Lenape Stewardship
ChesLen Preserve, Chester County, Pennsylvania | 2022
For her Fall 2022 design studio at the Unive, Kina considered the ways in which the original indigenous group of Eastern Pennsylvania, the Lenni-Lenape, inhabited these lands prior to colonization. A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman, provided an inroads to understanding the Chester County landscape over 200 years ago, and inspired much of this work. At a site selected at ChesLen Preserve in Chester County, she began design explorations through making hand drawings and models.
This work is ongoing and has culminated in a perfomance-video installation as well as an animation short film.