5 Chairs Project – #5
5 Chairs, 5 days. No drawings. Gesture sculpture – kind of like gesture drawing. Instagram documentation and immediate feedback. Here is chair #5: With this chair, I wanted to find a line that was in between a lounge chair and a dining chair. I guess the proper term for that is a side chair, or occasional...
5 Chairs Project – #4
5 Chairs, 5 days. No drawings. Gesture sculpture – kind of like gesture drawing. Instagram documentation and immediate feedback. Here is chair #4: With this chair, I wanted to move away from the lounge chair aesthetic and attempt a more upright chair – like a dining chair. A chair, chair. As I mention above, upon completion...
5 Chairs Project – #3
5 Chairs, 5 days. No drawings. Gesture sculpture – kind of like gesture drawing. Instagram documentation and immediate feedback. Here is chair #3: On this chair, I was still pushing a lounge chair type of aesthetic, but I really wanted to break out of the style from the 2 previous chairs. I definitely pushed up against...
5 Chairs Project – #2
5 Chairs, 5 days. No drawings. Gesture sculpture – kind of like gesture drawing. Instagram documentation and immediate feedback. Here is chair #2: Again, with the constraint of working in under 2 hours – or as quickly as possible. It’s interesting to see the feedback from the instagram post. Even at day 2 of the...
5 Chairs Project – #1
This project didn’t exactly start as a project, it started as a single piece – an experiment. I’d always been intimidated with the idea of making a chair, so one night I decided to just go for it. And rather than sit down with pen and paper, sketch it out with a protractor and ruler,...
TetraHexaSomething
This is a project that I made this semester in school. It started out as a wire frame design for a pendant lamp – but then I thought, Hey! What if I make it into something a bit more architectural in scale. So I did. The rad thing about this piece is that it’s modular....
DIY – Hungarian Shelf
Here’s my modern twist on the traditional hungarian shelving unit. The basic premise is that the vertical supports are mounted to the wall and the horizontal shelves slide into the slots. All hardware is hidden. If the slots are cut precisely, there is no need for any additional hardware to attach the horizontal shelves. I...
13′ Oak Slab
For the first 2 weeks before schools starts, the incoming class participates in a design build project to gear up for the school year. We transformed a space at the Donald E Long Juvenile Detention Center into a literacy center – the basic premise was to create a space for the students at the center...
Thinking about tents…
I’ve been thinking about tents. Temporary structures. Poles and cloth. Skeletons and skin. Perhaps it’s the reference to an event, an experience, a happening Images via Life Archive
To skate in the city is to have new eyes
Yesterday, I got the chance to hear Johnston Foster speak about his current installation at Disjecta in Portland. Through the course of conversation he began to touch on the impact of skating and how it changes the way we see a city. Foster is a scavenger, and works primarily with the junk that he finds...
Get some!
Through the course of working on some furniture commissions for my friends Ted and Angie, the owners of Poketo, we developed a conversation of how I might be able to sell some of my goods through their store. Fortunately they were getting ready to launch an urban gardening line, and my plant stands were a...
Parallel, Perforated
Here’s another piece I made for my friends Ted and Angie from Poketo. They needed a bench that offered seating for their front room, and doubled as a landing strip just inside the front door. Again, they wanted to keep the aesthetic simple, clean, functional and modern. Part of the bottom shelf will also double...