head in the clouds
body in the clouds
A 2020 New Year’s Zine of Verse and Accompanying Somatic Exercises created in collaboration with the inimitable Nat Myers.
Bisected Esophagus Tests - finding the right casting method for achieving both a vessel-like quality and function.
A small reminder, only something fun.
“Human beings forget they created the images in order to orientate themselves in the world. Since they are no longer able to decode them, their lives become a function of their own images: Imagination has turned into hallucination. This”
Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
A swim cap that was used in “The Skin” casually sitting around in the studio.
A mildly effective yet delightfully pleasing jiggy/thing/scramble to hold polaroid photographs down while a silicone incasement was curing.
As observed at the New York Botanical Garden with associated experiments carried out with a pre-corpse in Ridgewood.
An ear where an ear is not usually meant to be. Perhaps this is what it looks like to fall asleep listening to a heartbeat.
Cross section drawings of “Monkey Ladder” (Entda gigas).
A nightly ritual. Time lapse photographs on a dark porch.
January 2017 Beach Exercises on Whitecrest Beach in Wellfleet, MA - exploration done with Gregory Beson.
Morning walks with intention.
Observations that revealed the variety of different markings and impressions made in the sand:
The tide receding and the overlapping waves on the shore, revealing a scalloped push and pull pattern - a cycle of change.
The objects found in the sand, little islands of matter found either partially buried from tides or tiny dunes carved by the wind.
The alien patterns of the rocks rolling down the enormous dune walls - traces made from mass and gravity.
In order to understand these natural behaviors we looked for ways to emulate and map with our own bodies. Creating impressions, using our full bodies as stylus tools - rolling, throwing, walking.
Private space with a tree.
“That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.”
Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
Very early formal research for a series of experimental flatware.
It is so romantic that we wear the same prescription.
The semantics of your steak knife - what does the form say about the knife itself through personification - what might the form of the knife say about the designer who made it?
It was a bite of the apple that started it all.
The iLecturn and the iMReadingaRealBook “The only thing that has changed is everything” - Apple dipping its toes even deeper into modern religion. Made out of the traditional monolithic monomaterial aluminum casing. A play on the “Pad” and “The Book”
A graphic exercise for the development of my 2015 “Institute for Technological Grounding” research project - which spun off into “Being in Touch” down the line. Visually communicating (in a branding-esque style) the intangible information swirling around us at all times, how can an institute founded on the principles of countering the technological noice in our lives also communicate the issue within its visual messaging.
Swirling, spinning, an osmosis. Communicating the transfiguration/transmutation of digital information.
Intention dictates how touches are felt. A touch on the exact same spot on your arm, at the exact same pressure can feel totally different depending on the emotion the toucher is experiencing. This is one way our internal world is projected outward, without language, or images, simply through impressions.
How can we truly understand someone else’s sensory experience? Sensory data runs through our memories in order for us to locate and understand what we are experiencing? Is there a way to communicate these memories to another person?
