Shannon Garden-Smith (she/her) is an artist of Scottish-Irish settler heritage based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Working across sculpture, installation, and expanded photo practice, Garden-Smith examines the material-social impact of the surfaces that clad our contemporary built world. Through a slow, repetitive process that re-visibilizes how the day-to-day architectures of our lives become naturalized through repeated exposure, her work re-sensitizes us to the labour and material that sustain our everyday. Engendering slippages between surface and structure, her work examines labour, identity, and power in human-built architectures, intervening into capitalist, productivist modes of telling time and of relation. Garden-Smith is a doctoral student in visual art at York University.