Reading Chair
Oak
2019
This piece is my most recent in the same series of work dealing with memory and sentimentality. The work is based on a chair that I have a strong attachment to from my childhood because I associate it with my mom. I want the chair to function specifically as a device or channel for remembering, and not be used for its intended purpose. With this I hoped to draw more parallels between the way we store human artifacts like tools and furniture behind glass or security wires. These items are displayed and admired and treated as precious because they are part of how we contextualize our society.
Fence from our Roof Deck Built from Memory (1st iteration)
Digital Rendering
2018
These renderings are the plans for a piece I worked on fall 2018 in Greenwood. This is one of the first pieces in a body of work I am continuing to explore this semester and hopefully throughout my senior year. In an effort to explore my own sentimentality, I have been thinking about the way humans feel the need to store and document memories on a personal and societal level. In reflecting on my love of science and history museums, I have also been trying to draw parallels between museum reproductions, infographics, and artifact displays and the photo albums, physical mementos, and spaces we place so much value in. For this specific piece I created a warped digital reproduction of a section from the fence that surrounds the deck on the roof of my apartment building at home from memory.
Fence from our Roof Deck Built from Memory (2nd iteration)
Ash
2018
In displaying the final project I hoped to decontextualize the physical object as much as possible to detract from the intended purpose of a fence. This piece should serve only as a memory device in the same way that dioramas of early humans in museums serve only as a way to teach us about ourselves as a species.
Tree Fence from the Dogwood Tree outside of our Building (1st Iteration)
Digital Rendering
2018
This is another plan for a piece that also addresses the issues in the above work.
Tree Fence from the Dogwood Tree outside of our Building (2nd Iteration)
Steel, Hand forged details
2018
This piece was created at the same time as Fence from our Roof Deck Built from Memory and contains the same themes and ideas.
Memory Topographies
Digital Renderings created from old Family Photographs
2018
For these images I used the heightfield tool in rhino to create topographies using family photographs. This work begins to explore the dilution of memory and how we try to grasp onto things we want to remember by taking photos. In the same way we rely on maps to physically navigate through the world, we use photos to navigate through memories of our lives.
Three Memories of my Parents
Rubber, Pine, Clothespins
2018
In this piece I 3D printed the Memory Topographies and cast them in rubber. This piece is a more finished and considered product of the ideas I was thinking about.
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Steel and Poplar
2018
For this piece I used the CNC plasma cutter to cut the shapes of plant cells under a microscope into the sides of a 6x6" steel box to explore the relationship between the strength of both natural and manmade construction materials.
