Being financially, and mentally happy and stable.
Moving out of Texas in 2016 to pursue a creative community I knew existed out there.
Staying afloat.
chicken tenders at the halloween party. Buckets of them. All free.
It's not me, it's about making the idea better.
Conceptual. Trippy. Laced with meaning.
Honestly, the big circumstance hasn't changed my perspective on design. It's nonessential and I do it because I need a creative career. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Being bold.
This body of graduate work is packaged under ideas of class consciousness and class movement. I question what it means to be a successful American--one who has access to leisure, the middle-class, and the freedom to participate in designed escapism. Given my own socioeconomic perspective, I work in investigating my curiosities of the mini golf landscape: who is this for? What factors drive my fascination and obsession? I examine my own assumptions, values, and definitations of being a “real-American'' reveal. In regards to the objective clarity of my ideas, I don’t seek to work in a 1 to 1 communication parallel; there’s an organic wonder in seeing what a viewer brings into it and seeing what they get out of it. I work in the realm of dreams, visceral matter, and poetic thought. I don’t think it’s beneficial to me or to the audience to give a definite answer to all of this (who really can? I certainly cannot hold myself to any scientific standard). Access Americana is ultimately aiming to poetically examine my experience of class displacement and the vast question of how place can be represented through the external abstract and how it can be reinvented through an internal experience.
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This 2 color screen printed poster was to promote a lecture by curator Anne Ellegood. We used reflective silver paper and used images connoting curation and Los Angeles.
In collaboration with Candice Navi.
