Throughout the two years of my graduate studies I have been using the materials, conventions and forms of contemporary architectural practice to explore the everyday, perceptual quirks between physical presence, and imaginative occupation of space. My most recent work has explored Western architectural form ranging from the Ziggurats of the Mayans, to the Strip-Malls of Columbus, Ohio.
I have been making pieces based on my discoveries, comparing and contrasting the forms in terms of mathematical proportion and scale, and by their symbolism and function. When disassociated from their urban scale and context, they create a system of geometric forms which are: simple, abstract, and repetitive. I have been using traditionally impermanent materials to make a lexicon of tensile structures. With these, I hope to stimulate a need for the viewer's relation of personal narratives to explain the possible functions and relationships of the forms to one another. I am interested in how they create, for the viewer, individual interior and exterior situations almost like stage-sets without a script, cast or director.
My thesis is a selected chronology of the process which brought me to the work exhibited in my graduating show.