So what are some strategies or products even available that help us as architects integrate expansion joints m- more seamlessly into our design while still doing the job they need to do?

So I'd normally start out with an architect to say, "Get what you need for the floor," because that's gonna take the most abuse.

We have systems that have the ability to have the finishes integrated into the floor, whether it be terrazzo, sheet vinyl, VCT, or carpet.

That'll help disguise the floor joint system.

And then for the wall and ceiling, typically I would say get the system that fits for the application and then try and match the wall to the ceiling joint to align those sight lines.

But try and avoid aligning sight lines with the floor to the wall to the ceiling.

It's a little too matchy-matchy, but when you have high movement, sometimes that's the least of your worries and you wanna just make the joint system be as small as it possibly can on the wall and ceiling.

How do those performance requirements differ between the interior and exterior applications?

What was it? Where is it headed?

Hmm.

When Japan opened up to the West, tattooing was considered a high society thing.

A lot of European royalty had souvenir tattoos from Japanese tattoo masters.

The Japanese had been doing large scale, high-end tattooing since the Edo period.

So it was a high society thing for a period of time, and then the electric tattoo machine was invented, and it became even more of a working class thing, and you start seeing it on sailors, military people.

And that's really the era that Nick came out of, is that shift of when it went from, you know, a boutique, high-end thing or something specific to Japan, and then transitioned into, like, a working class thing.

What is something you have learned along the way? Because I gather you went into this already with a lot of knowledge, but what was an aha moment as you put this together, both the book and the exhibition?