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Dennis M. Burke

This is an archive of earned attention.

Two practices—MAKING and TEACHING—evolved in parallel.

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Making
The Architecture of Identity and Domesticity — Visual System Breakdown

The Architecture of Identity and Domesticity

An ongoing investigation using model houses, industrial materials, and gallery installations to examine how domestic labor and spatial systems shape personal identity.

Identity Through Architecture Social Sculpture Kinetic Engineering
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The construction of thought through material engagement.

Studio work as spatial inquiry—testing how ideas behave when given form.

Each project negotiates the friction between concept and constraint.

HomeSweetHouse
Mixed Media Installation — 2014

HomeSweetHouse

Suspended architectural structure testing domestic labor against physical weight and spatial confinement.

W.I.P. Series
Performance + Video — 2011–2014

W.I.P. Series

Twelve-part endurance performance archiving repetitive labor and bodily strain required for creative mastery.

Teaching

The architecture of learning environments.

Designing systems for attention, structures for transformation.

Each course builds scaffolding that others use to construct their own understanding.

Graphic Design
Digital Arts Curriculum — 2024–2025

Graphic Design I & II

Design systems curriculum producing professional portfolios from zero infrastructure using Adobe Creative Suite.

CTE House Wiring
Vocational Curriculum — 2024–2025

CTE Residential House Wiring

Safety-first electrical curriculum translating theoretical wiring concepts into spatial reasoning applications.

Synthesis

MAKING and TEACHING are not separate practices.

They are one methodology tested in two conditions: alone with materials, together with people.

This site is the shared infrastructure that reveals them as a single system.

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Active — 2026 — Digital Portfolio Infrastructure

THE BUILT SELF

Building the infrastructure that connects making and teaching as a single navigable system. Architecture locked. Content population in progress. Relational evidence system replacing static portfolio logic.