Digital & Analog Work
Digital Skills featured: Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, ProCreate, Bamboo, Blender, 3D Printing.
Analog skills featured: Mold making, laser cutting, letterpress, organizational skills, book design, bookbinding, foam printing, pressure printing, sewing, pattern making, weaving, and drawing.
Capturing Lost Wax
As we evolve as a society we become increasingly estranged from the objects we use and their craftsmanship. We are increasingly estranged from the process of creation. I am interested in honoring the process.
Lost wax casting involves creating a mold around a wax model and then melting the wax out, leaving a cavity that can then be filled by molten gold, silver, brass, and bronze. This allows for the casting of intricately detailed objects. I am interested in critiquing the value of certain materials over others and honoring both the process and the materials used in the process.
Throughout history lost wax has been made out of a combination of waxes which have evolved and changed from culture to culture. Some waxes that are used to make lost wax include microcrystalline wax, paraffin wax, or beeswax. Paraffin wax is separated from petroleum through crystallization and can be synthetically made from coal gas, microcrystalline wax is derived from petroleum which comes from the remains of prehistoric plants and animals, and beeswax is produced from a gland in the abdomen of honeybees and is excreted to create the hive itself.
In this piece I cast objects which are typically cast in metal, with the use of investment casting, in lost wax, to honor the process and materials of the process. I cast a lock, ornamental bracelet pieces, and tooth crowns. I made these casts using the original lock and 3D prints of teeth and a bracelet piece. I installed the teeth on a raw honeycomb, the bracelet pieces on a pile of coals, and the lock hanging on a tree branch. I did this to honor the natural materials used in the creation of lost wax and in the investment casting process.
Seeing Ourselves
People have a history of humanizing the world around them. Does this come from a negative ego-centered culture?” Or is humanizing an attempt to empathize with what we don't fully understand?
My work explores what scientists have named pareidolia, “the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern,” often these patterns are faces and other humanistic features.
My work pictures two 3D printed trees with leaves on the floor and different size rocks dispersed through a scene that has been humanized: the roots of the tree are made from scans of my hands, the rocks are covered in my fingerprints, and a rock has a human face. The human elements are meant to be subtle, to emulate creating meaning out of ambiguous visual patterns. Lastly, the composition of the scene mimics how we project our human perception in the ways we visualize nature.
This piece was inspired by the "Face on Mars."
The Pursuit
Of Fruit
This series, The Pursuit Of Fruit, features four supernatural-like environments I created using Adobe Photoshop. These pieces have a focus on nature with a fictional twist. Each piece features a tree with berries and avatars, with different variation in hue. The artists that inspired this series are Pipilotti Rist and Hayao Miyazaki and the game series Monument Valley.
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About Me
Driven college student, majoring in Design for Humanity with a focus in Design Equity and Human Centered Design Framework, looking to grow as a designer. Has a good design sense, organized, and strong attention to detail. Six years of experience interning and working in fashion design and two years of experience working in web design at NAOMI NOMI. Additional summer internships at an arts non-profit and an architecture firm. Seeking to expand knowledge of how design forms our everyday lives. Looking to gain experience in product design, industrial design, and UX/UI.
