Project by Camryn Locascio @camrynlocascio
This project examines a manufactured version of Florida where stability is no longer produced by nature but by systems designed to replace it. At its center is the flavor pack, a technology that reconstructs the taste of orange juice after industrial processing has stripped it away, allowing consistency despite shifts in climate, geography, and production. This logic extends beyond juice to shape the built environment itself. Housing, infrastructure, and civic space are reorganized around uninterrupted living, where flooding, heat, and ecological decline are absorbed into systems of control and adaptation. Where citrus was once celebrated through festivals, queens, and parades that transformed the grove into a symbol of abundance and civic pride, this project redirects that spectacle toward the systems that replaced it. Processing, storage, and the flavor pack become the new objects of celebration. Florida is recast as a place sustained by illusion, where stability is continuously performed rather than achieved.
