Projects
During my time at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, I designed over 100 posters for faculty lectures and visiting speakers.
I’ve chosen 15 of them to show.
The iSurvive survival mirror challenges our use of cell phones and text messaging. I created this piece of art to sit between product design and art. There are 100 signed and numbered pieces in the edition and they are available for $25 each. I currently have some on sale at Appalachian Outdoors in State College, Pennsylvania.
During the summer of 2008 I had the opportunity to participate in an apprenticeship program at the Fabric Workshop Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Under the guidance of Lonnie Graham, I participated in an accelerated apprenticeship program during a time when the FWM was moving their studio and office spaces. Because of the move, we worked with local screen printer Lauren Rossi in her Philadelphia studio when it came time to create our films, screens and repeat prints. Unfortunately it seems that Lauren’s site does not have any of her work on it, so I’ve linked to a blog that shows one of her pieces. I titled the piece “Kahua o Mali’o (a place of comfort)” and it was featured in the 2009 Penn State Graduate Exhibition in the Hub Gallery and in the Zoller Gallery during the spring 2009 1st year MFA exhibit.
Food and Art are nothing new for me, but recently (in the last 2 years or so) I’ve really been wanting to combine the two. Ever since I learned that Gordon Matta-Clarke was the first in New York to showcase the kitchen in an eatery and to brazenly experiment on his customers.
Welcome to Americaland! Where everything is Made Better®. This fall I went to New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut to see for myself what was happening at Ground Zero of the American Financial Crisis. This failure of a system that we have seen sweep across the globe has had an interesting impact that literally caught some developers so off guard, that what we find are some examples that range from Edward Scissorhands-like of Mansions, with overgrown unkempt landscaping to apocalyptic (The Happening) sort of frozen construction sites. The photos you see of the build sites are all taken during work days and I was amazed to see either little activity or yellow tape and plastic sheeting to close up the jobs, unfinished. Americaland, it’s like your town only Made Better®!
The Anatomy of a Junk Drawer was started a few months ago. It’s developed slowly and I’ve been trying to figure out a way to encourage more submissions from people. This is a critical challenge in online project development. If you can’t create an engaging interest, your project can die before it’s born. I’m not willing to give up on this project though and a newly generated interest by spendster.org has revitalized my efforts. I’ve been in communication with one of Spendsters marketing people in an effort to share exposure, hoping to generate more interest in my project. Spendster’s goal is different than mine but it’s not detestable or against my interests so the possibility of working with them could produce interesting results.
A Reduction of Literary Works is a project that explores the use of text tag scripting applied in a reductive method to produce unlikely and printed works that are antithetical to todays’ common tag cloud systems. The source material used for these anti-tag clouds are classic works of literature that have been banned by libraries, communities, states, and so on. The printed pieces act like beat poetry but in a eulogistic sense. They praise both the work of literature that they re-present and they present a counter-intuitive approach to word clouds. The final printed works in some ways may not represent the project in its entirety. I have been working on a performace piece that would include me sitting in the gallery editing or censoring the book to match the list of words displayed in the printed word lists of the books. I am also considering either reading aloud the final book or reading the word list either in monotone or in a sentence structure like manner.