Floor Extrusion replicates an original linoleum floor pattern on the ceiling below, as if the pattern has seeped through the floorboards. The project uses 3456 pieces of wood, and derives from Webster's interest in the politics of architecture, traces of events, and historical memory. Floor Extrusion is an architectural expression of how Elsewhere's building decays with time, sags from shifting foundations, and tells its own history.
Michael Webster’s work focuses on the manifestations of status through historical memory and spatial politics. Michael has worked with architects, designers, social workers, historians, and educators, and he pursues knowledge that is generated between fields. Over the past three years, Michael has been part of a collaborative group investigating the concealed history of urban renewal in Greenville, NC. In 2010 he curated the geographically-contextual exhibition Countertransference at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
