Crowns is an installation at Volume Gallery that reinterprets crown molding as a series of four spatial sculptures. Building upon research from the Smuggling Architecture exhibition, Crowns liberates crown molding from its context within the suburban home. As visitor enter, four over-scaled constructs occupy the large gallery, tracing the domestic seams of the suburban home. The significance of crown-molding in the everyday house is two-fold: 1) crown molding presents itself as a domestic aesthetic; and 2) crown molding acts as an eraser for builders to cover-up unnegotiated details. These are the same reasons why crown molding has been ignored by modernism. In this installation, crown molding no longer acts as the cosmetic for a joint, but rather exists independently, tracing seams to become the object itself.