Fall 2010

Sketchbook 

New ideas for a pleated chair/spiked chair; portrait sketches; top one, drawn collaboratively with Stacey... thinking too much about LOST. 

Summer 2010

This summer, I was fortunate enough to land a job as the Field Museum's model builder. I worked with the Exhibition Design team (Hi Alvaro, Robert, Eric, Mark, Cindy, Heejung!), creating a 1/4" scale model of the Abbott Conservation hall. Everyone worked really hard in designing an exhibit showcasing sustainability and environmental preservation. It opens in Fall 2011, and unfortunately none of my super-tiny, eye-impairing work can hit the internet until then. But, I really can't wait for the opening. It's not like any of their current or past exhibitions... which is exciting from a design perspective. I learned a great deal, especially since my supervisor let me observe the museum's production process for Chinese Rubbings. I  worked closely with artist and main production supervisor Mike Paha and conservationist Debbie Lynn. A very successful, and different, experience. Lots of dark corridors and walls of poisonous woods and taxidermied animals and wax plants. Science, a beautiful thing to support! So please, visit. And I will admit, I need a break from making  1/8" x3/8" display cases and supergluing my fingers together. 

Love-Lies-Bleeding

Set Design Model for Don DeLillo's Love-Lies-Bleeding

Spring 2010

A 1/4" scale model for Design For Performance; floor plans taken from the Lookingglass Theater . The play centers around a man who has a massive stroke and is now attached to a feeding tube. His wife, ex-wife, and son gather to decide whether or not they should end his life or allow him to continue living in pain. I wanted the play to have a sense of the outdoors, using sky and land imagery for openness, in contrast to the private battles expressed in the dialogues. The floor, covered in dirt, is the only area on stage where the actors are to speak, emphasizing themes of isolation. The photographed skies are bordered with frames, as well as the entrances to the theater. I wanted the audience to enter the set as if they were stepping through a window, being an onlooker to this family's problems. These images are from selected scenes. 

Set Design Sketches

Spring 2010

Drawings for Don DeLillo's play, Love-Lies-Bleeding. The model box is in a quarter inch scale, and pictures will be up soon. 

Sketchbook

Spring 2010

Random doodles. 

Sketchbook

Spring 2010

Furniture Sketches. 

Winter 2009

Table/Display Case

8"x 24"x 36"

Built a trapezoid base with a rectangle box that can function as a table, bookshelf, or display case. Wanted to explore shape and angles, as well as finishes.