Kiernan’s process begins with a physical discovery: a discarded 1941 book of building plans titled Das Grunddrisswerk, found on the streets of Berlin. By applying gouache directly onto the blueprints of a Cologne cultural center, she creates a striking friction between the precise, cold geometry of the past and the emotional intensity of the film that inspired her. The work is deeply informed by the movie's soundtrack, using the interplay of light and shadow to mirror the rhythmic tension of the narrative.

There is a palpable sense of deterioration and disrepair inherent in the found material, which Kiernan uses to anchor her illustration. The convergence of human-made structures and raw emotional expression creates a haunting dialogue between the permanence of architecture and the perilous journeys of the human spirit. The result is a portrait that feels both grounded in structural history and charged with a restless, dark anxiety.