Our final project for ‘Toys! 2015’ under Professor Mitchell Squire, was a gravity racer designed by Anndrea Joiner (ARC), Chelsea Brtis (ARC), Kelsi Thrasher (ARC) and myself. We ended up naming the car Zanabazar Jr., after the sleek and aerodynamic profile of the dinosaur’s jaws (explained here). The title of the Toys! exhibition this year, The Bizarre Bazaar, worked in conjunction with our decision and we ran … Continue reading Zanabazar Jr.
In between coursework I have been gathering a series of patent drawings that have proven useful in illustrating and exploring the themes of my written research. I am crafting a drawing project that only utilizes copyrighted imagery, tapping into the composite ideograms (or ‘(dis)continuous geneaologies’) of Douglas Darden, and using them to interpret vast landscapes abstracted into capital. Living in and among the diagram of the Midwest, I … Continue reading Cultivating the Lawscape
On Saturday May 2, Toys! 2015 hosts “Bizarre Bazaar,” a celebration that features work created by a talented group of students. We’ll be showing for the first time a set of gravity racers and soap box derby cars (if they survive the race on Friday) in addition to an array of earlier projects, from building blocks to haute couture furry masks. And of course you’ll … Continue reading Bizarre Bazaar Announcement
ARCH 528C – Drawing Cultures – Prof. Pete Goche Preface Within the evolution of Western global imaginings has been the precarious boundary between known and unknown space. On a flat map, the known can be extended to the very edges of representational space, leaving implicit the question what lies beyond the frame. From antiquity the bounds of the earth have been drawn to distinguish humanity … Continue reading The Expansive Contract
Kelsi Thrasher, Chelsea Brtis, Anndrea Joiner and I have been working towards our final project for TOYS! 2015: a soap box derby car to be raced down Oakland Street behind the College of Design. The design consists of two CNC milled MDF sheets, threaded with steel rods, held apart by white acrylic rings. The axle and wheels were purchased from the official Soap Box Derby Car Organization (and … Continue reading Derby Car Update
Pit Mining, 6″ x 6″ – Mixed Media DSN 240 – Prof. Nathan Edwards Continue reading Pit Mining
An informative grad school visit to St. Louis and a trip to Chicago this weekend means it’s production time for the next few days. The following are two small thumbnails for an upcoming illustration assignment and four tiny media studies, all for Mixed Media class with Nathan Edwards. Continue reading Misc. Thumbnails and Swatches
Terranum: 28″ x 18″: acrylic, binder clips, cardboard, chipboard, LEDs, strathmore ARCH 433: File to Fab: Prof. Pete Evans Part of an ongoing project entitled ‘The Black Archipelago’ New respect for electrical engineers and the art of cable dressing. Continue reading Terranum
every mode of government is sustained, articulated, predicated on a certain representation of the human condition 