Always, 2023 (2” x 4” Pewter and Sand)
Always, 2023 (2” x 4” Pewter and Sand)
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Cast on Montrose Beach in Chicago, IL, Always references the mark-making impulse and a vane desire to make the impermanent, permanent. Pewter ingots reading “always” were made by pressing freshly minted casts into sand; the old made the new, so each subsequent iteration strays further from the original. The work develops a “grain,” and the text becomes indiscernible. The original denotation is lost, going from a promise of endurance to one of transience. The illusion of permanence extends beyond the loss of legibility; pewter can be infinitely recast: “always” becomes an admission of mutability.
Eye Willow Ways, 2022 (4” x 5” x 2” Wood, Steel, Resin, and Paper)
Eye Willow Ways, 2022 (4” x 5” x 2” Wood, Steel, Resin, and Paper)
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Eye Willow Ways is a three-word poem that develops meaning through repetition and degradation. The poem is embossed through the clockwise turn of a handle. Designed to print over itself until the text is illegible, these three seemingly unrelated words lose their legibility and meaning through repetition; semantic saturation, also known as verbal satiation, is a phenomenon where the meaning of words is lost through repetition. Meaning is then re-established as the words make a homophone through repetition: “eye willow ways” turns into “I will always.” Meaning is reinforced, deprived, and developed through repetition
sonder, 2022 (5” x 5” x 3.5” Acrylic, PLA, Photo Transparencies)
sonder, 2022 (5” x 5” x 3.5” Acrylic, PLA, Photo Transparencies)
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sonder n. the realization that each passerby is living a life as complex as one’s own
We are each the central characters within our own stories, living selfishly within a world limited to our experience behind the lens of our perspective. The stories of the cast of characters we call our acquaintances, friends, and families are known to us, while the extras of our lives, the people at the periphery of our vision, go relatively unnoticed.
There are moments we move beyond the limits of our perspective and see strangers for who they are: unique characters at the center of their own complex lives. During these perspective shifts, the walls that neatly contain our reality comes down, and we become hyper-aware that billions of stories are lived in tandem alongside ours. The critical awareness of the complex lives of the people surrounding us is known as sonder. To sonder is to walk outside the selfishness of the human experience and to recognize the unique lives of strangers at the periphery of our lives.
This book has a view master-inspired design containing photos of people observing other people in sonder. I've taken a series of 7 photos of people observing other people; person A looking at person B, person B looking at person C, and so on until the carousel loops and person G is viewing person A.
Human Brush, 2021 (various sizes, human hair, metal, and PLA)
Human Brush, 2021 (various sizes, human hair, metal, and PLA)
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I’ve been 3d modeling and printing paintbrushes from my hair. I see these brushes as a way to connect with others creatively. I felt a distance from everyone in my personal and grad life last semester, this project started as a means to collaborate on projects from a safe distance while having an object that contains a person’s essence, influencing artistic choices and strokes by the very nature of the variability of human hair.
Hair contains memories. We grow hair throughout the most beautiful and traumatic days of our lives. I wanted to document moments of my recent past by using sections of my hair that were grown at specific times and attaching them to brush handles.