Be interested in words. Comedy and seriousness.

What is around you. Look around. What is it made of.

Look at things that we don't see. Google search for ghost on the internet.

Tiles and Pompey

This summer I was lucky enough to go on a trip to Italy with my family. We got to go to Pompey one day. The abandoned city was filled with frescos and tile. I was particularly interested in these little windows between buildings. Considering how disposable our society is today, it is a question what would be left behind so many years after extinction. The answer is glass coke bottles. What does that say about us?

Here in Kansas City, I am interested in the patterns that I find every day. Especially floor patterns. Am curious about what patterns show up where. Patterns picked out are randomized. Brick patterns/tile patterns/wood trimming.

The Night Tent: built last semester for my final project. This tent is built with plastic bags sewn together with cloth. The cloth makes up a quilt like pattern. The effects of the pattern were not initially intended to take a major part in its composition. But soon became an integral part to it's posture and form. This is how pattern surfaces in my own work.

Tiffany Lamp. I'm really amazed by everything about this lamp and am especially drawn to how the glass is pushed through the circular net pattern. Am currently in a printmaking elective and plan on picking out pattern such as this and carving. Perhaps will press some of the imagery into clay.

A Maquette of an eleven-drawer cabinet.

This idea has to do with that of storage. Last semester I worked with replicating objects from different material. And worked with the idea of what makes an object; why they are made; and how they transform through a different process/material of making.

The eleven-drawer cabinet stands for an object that can hold other objects. (not to be too obvious). But more so that this object stands for an object that can hold entire universes in each drawer. The back side of the cabinet will have doors that swing open to the empty structure of the backside of the drawers--giving whoever opens it a sense that they are seeing the backside of what was meant to be seen. A hollow cabinet with structures for drawers.