Raised under the authority of the Title I Slum Clearance Act in 1968 by the office of Robert Moses, Arverne remains to this day the largest tract of city-owned vacant land in New York City. In the wake of this Œstillborn renewal¹ floats the flotsam of silence: a tabula rasa awaiting a master plan that will most likely never materialize. The installation presents fragments from a 6-year project investigating the means by which this condition is represented and subsequently accounted for. It is a space of an absent presence, a stratified environment of gaps resisting global description, traversed and realigned through the imaginative act.