Wolves Run in Packs

View the process book for this project here.

Perpetrators of mass violence are often inspected in isolation—described as "lone wolves"—when in reality they influence one another in a growing web of radicalization, white extremism, and mass violence.

The final deliverable took form as a wall installation showing the connections and influences of past attacks on more recent ones. Red thread indicates those influences, box depth represents the death count of each instance, and some boxes have quotes from perpetrators in black type to communicate how they see themselves as heroes, martyrs, and victims.

Smaller experiments along the way coincided with research to give visual metaphors to complexities of how those with hateful ideologies communicate—to the outside world, to each other, and to themselves.