public art: design
projections of voice recordings on bristol diagrams of churches
I’ve been exposed to so many different ways of approaching design, and I really love that I’ve learned to envision a concept in multiple formats and presentation methods. With this piece specifically, I worked with video projections to cast the words of my friends onto the cut-out facades of the churches that surround my neighborhood in Texas. Starting with a realization of the profundity of churches in my area, I began to contemplate what their placement and repetition might represent. I saw their consistent appearance as a show of piety and moderation, something I am not opposed to, but that I question in relation to the various identities and cultures that exist in my hometown. Does the singularity of a religious, devoted community bolster or thwart the diverse voices living within it? I drew also from my own perceptions of the church: creating a symbolic space for me to highlight the successes and failures of an institution that has had such a large role in my life. Removing the stigma from speaking your mind about religious spaces, I asked my friends to record themselves speaking about their experiences in the church. Taking these recordings and manually creating captions for them, I ruminated on their words and pointed out the similarities in their statements. This process not only highlighted the voices of my peers by making them (hypothetically) monumental, but also portrayed the intimacy in shared experience.
oh! and i also made my first zine!
spatial dynamics final!
Tasked with creating a covering for a light source, I challenged myself to go the fabric route and had so much fun experimenting with various transparency levels. Fabric, as a material, has so much life and i’ve found myself drawn to its possibility. As a result, I’ve been using the sewing machine as less of a practical machine and more of a mark-making tool. In this piece, I used various line thicknesses to create contrasting strips of color and stuffed some lines to prevent light from showing through - all in an effort to emulate the line variety I associate with drawing. A part of me wants to recreate this with vertical lines, but I was really set on the horizontal due my inspiration: Zaha Hadid’s “Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Arts Center”. I’m interested in experimenting with obstructed shadows and fabric as I (inevitably) continue to work with light and transparency.
special thanks to Pamela-Unwin-Barkley for being such a joy to work with; you fueled my love for creating tangible objects ✨✨ @punwinbarkley
drawing final!!!!
charcoal and graphite on bristol and transparent yupo
I’ve realized i’m a little bit obsessed with making tiny charcoal drawings but I promise this is the last (maybe)!
Commemorating the beauty of providence while illustrating the chaos of my own life, I drew snippets of my last few weeks as a freshman at RISD: stopping to stare and take pictures of the little things that make me smile around campus. Though some notes are quite somber, I think it accurately portrays what it’s like to navigate freshman year while constantly pushing yourself creatively and intellectually. It’s not all fun, but it’s definitely not all bad. It’s a weird feeling, having so many ups and downs throughout the span of a school year, but I truly believe there’s beauty in all of it.
here’s to (hopefully) breaking out of modular compositions and allowing myself to have fun and be free while creating 🤍
compilation of some works in progress
slowly realizing I should be posting my successes and failures on here,, here’s a first step to many more trials and errors 🥂
“remember me” chandelier
linen, chiffon, and cotton fabric machine embroidered with warm-colored threads
Being one of my first design projects in the ID department, I really wanted to experiment with stretching the constraints of a “product”. I’m used to creating personal, intimate, objects, so I was interested in transforming those skills into something meant to be shared/experienced.
Is intimacy a context that can be transferred from creator to consumer?
risd - semester 1
some things i’ve been working on
1. charcoal drawing of shadows
2. vine charcoal drawing of some objects from the Edna Lawrence Nature Lab
3. charcoal drawing of handmade clay sculpture
4. birdhouse design assignment for spatial dynamics
5. cloud painting made with homemade paint (water, pigment, and gum arabic)
6. collaborative blind contour drawing
7. chair made out of 1’x2’ pieces of wood using various wood joints and a japanese saw
space & place
charcoal and graphite on yupo paper, attached to graphite drawings on stonehenge
Coming to Rhode Island, I felt a very strange shift in environment and interaction. I was no longer near my family, and I began to miss the mundane spaces and experiences I had access to in Texas. For my drawing midterm, I took this distance and longing and turned it into a piece based on location and memory. Using pictures I had on my camera roll of my home, I thought through the exact locations of my kitchen, living room, and my parent’s bedroom. I related these locations to each other and left spaces (blank paper) to indicate a gap in available documentation. Reflecting on distance and my familiarity with the space I call home, I really began to recognize how important space and objects are to my existence. Would I still be able to call my home “home” if it no longer had the lived-in furniture and objects I associate it with?
pieces of home
sticky notes, watercolor paper, chipboard, fabric scraps, spray paint, and oil-based pencil on wood panel (arranged to resemble the floor plan of my house)
