material world
design//art//explorations
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This project invites audiences to join artists in painting a rotating cylindrical canvas. “Revolutions” echoes how artists build on each other's ideas, works and wisdom.
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'Revolutions' Public Installation//w/ E.W.o.C. Collective//Nuit Blanche Toronto//2019
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'Invasive Species' speaks to the bend in the Los Angeles River, echoing the physical curve and modulating views through the transparent mesh frame. Installed January 2019. It also can be played as an instrument.
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'Invasive Species' Public Sculpture//w/Steve Campos Fabrication//Los Angeles//2019
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The digital junkyard is an experiment in virtual salvage. It is a repository of donated digital information that is used to generate real physical objects. Making use of the derelict bits of ideas, lines, code, vectors, patterns, curves that we all have cluttering up our hard drives, the digital junkyard seeks to mine the embodied intellectual energy stored in digital files.
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Digital Junkyard//DFZ Ryerson//Toronto//2017
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This action research project culminated in the creation of a temporary pavilion in Flemingdon Park, a mid-century tower apartment neighbourhood in Toronto. The approach sought to enhance community cohesiveness while testing co-design methods.
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Flemingdon Town Pavilion//Toronto Centre for Active Transportation//2016
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These custom wood cargo boxes can be seen delivering prepared meals around Toronto for Feast, a local food delivery company.
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Custom Cargo Box//Feast//Toronto//2016
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Secure Personal Access (SPA) is a community organization seeking to develop a model and facility for a unique homeless hygiene centre in Skid Row, Los Angeles. I worked with them to develop programming and concept designs for the partnerships and fundraising campaigns.
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Skid Row SPA//Secure Personal Access//Los Angeles//2015
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This modular booth was designed to showcase an emerging toronto-based bicycle company, Simcoe Cycles. It was presented at the North American Bicycle Tradeshow in Las Vegas, NV.
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Bicycle Display//Simcoe Bicycles//Las Vegas//2015
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Developed through a community arts grant, this temporary tree-fort was constructed in the woods near Toronto Community Housing site, Villawayz. The project was inspired by a fort the kids had built on site that was torn down by the housing corporation. A custom modular building system allowed the kids to collaborate in building the structure.
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Villawayz Treefort//ArtStarts//Toronto//2014
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The Guerilla Park Bench was commissioned by a local business in Northeast Los Angeles to create seating in an adjacent park. The bench is designed to be collapsed and wheeled inside at night in order to avoid lengthy and costly permitting for permanent public amenities.
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Guerilla Park Bench//Los Angeles//2012
