Wings

Commedia dell'arte Masks

Harlequin

II Dottore

 

Poseidon

Gizmos n' Gadgets BFA Thesis Exhibition

True False 2012

 This year at Columbia, MO's True False Film Festival,  I was offered a position as a Venue Design Artist and this years project was to create a new installation at the Missouri Theater Venue to fit this years theme of Influence Machines.
   Along with this, a piece that i created the previous year was also on display at the University of Missouri Jesse Hall Auditorium venue.
   Finally, I conspired with Paul Mossine and Chelsea Myers of Tiny Attic Productions, who created the daily video blog updates for TF during the event, where I'm featured is a short clip of a performance that I exhibited during the event.

Influence Machine

 

  

  

 

Performance Clip

True/False: Day 3 from True/False Film Festival on Vimeo.

Armaments!

 

Masquerade!

 Exhibited during the Fusion Student Exhibition, “The Heat is On”, Society of North AmericanGoldsmiths Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, Jurors: Lynn Cool, French Thompson, Michael J. Parrett

 These forms are inspired by current trends in metals, the past tradition of Celtic decoration, and African ritual artifacts.  Combining these differing eras come together to form wearable adornments that visually reflect a dual masculinity. This piece projects power through the threat to harm the viewer as well as the wearer. Their sharp, feather-like projections call attention to vulnerable areas of the body while imposing these areas as menacing. Modern industrial materials, such as nuts and bolts, viewed as masculine are combined with the metalsmithing practices like chasing, embossment, annealing, oxidation, and color tempering. This fusion of processes in my interpretation results in unique urban tribal adornments. The body is utilized as a sculptural base to further bring together the connection between the human body and evolution into our currently aggressive industrial status. These forms simultaneously adorn and protect yet are menacing to both the viewer and wearer in the same way that modern industrial materials can be viewed as elements of construction or destruction.

 

 

Vanity, Mechanics, and Design

A currently developing body of work involving jewelry techniques of chasing, shaping, and found object incorporation.

These are works based on ideas of power, vanity and hubris as armor. Design influences have emerged from Greek Mythology (Icarus's wings created by Daedalus), Sea Creatures, Mayan and Aztec head ornaments and ceremonial costumes, as well as current high-end fashion trends in the form of creature-like, potentially wearable sculpture. Incorporated into the pieces are components of industrial materials as a metaphor for the triumphs of industry and technology. Simple mechanical components, such as bolts, nuts, rivets, and gears are transformed into sculptural wearable adornment that is on the verge of non-wear-ability. These wearable forms, such as bracelets and rings, are visually seductive yet cause a tension of caution due to the elongated feather-like points and sharp edges. The application of menacing adornment has the potential to cause harm to the onlookers simultaneously suggesting protection and danger.

Copper, Brass, Aluminum, Found Objects, Hardware