Shim Sukkah
tinder, tinker
A wood shim is a rather ordinary thing used in building, a tool of the trade. It is most often used to fill space between things (ie. gaps in construction). The typical profile tapers from 1/4” to nothing over 16” (roughly 4 handbreadths). For Shim Sukkah, this becomes the building block. Stacking of these tapered elements allows for structure and the disintegration of structure to exist closely, within the same thing. The floor, walls, and roof all become the space between. The Sukkah enclosure vanishes with the material characteristics to reveal the inhabitant/s inside and the environment it which the sukkah resides, within the park, the city, under the night sky.
