KAITLIN POMERANTZ, 2021

Make Your Own Superfund Site: A History (and Future) in 9 Folds
Metalbank Superfund Site, Philadelphia

How does a place become a Superfund site? How did this place become one? The paper template offers a series of prompts toward a somatic engagement with 7301 Milnor Street, each fold symbolizing a moment in the Site's history from pre-human nature to Lenape territory to post-industrial extractivist wasteland. The cumulative transformation of the paper into an enclosed packet riddled with history, secrets, and potentials stands in for the capped and contained Superfund Site itself — its sordid past, its ripe and riddled future.