Prompted to craft a tool out of wood capable of picking up, cracking, and beating an egg, I crafted this apparatus.
The lower panel bends out, allowing the egg to be picked up into a net made of melted plastic bag. The upper box, with a sharp wooden edge inside, closes into the panel containing the net. The three elements can then be smacked together against a surface, much like a fly swatter, to break the egg. The box can then be moved up and the egg sieved out through the net into a bowl, to then be beaten by the other end of the tool.
You can see a video of how my tool, as well as several of my peers, functioned in a video filmed by RISD president John Maeda at http://our.risd.edu/post/40765500312/i-visited-professor-deborah-coolidges-students.
Constructed from steel wire and gold-colored jewelry wire, this sculpture, intended to be hung, conveys the structure of barnacles clinging to a shell fragment, divided into planes.
These sketches are 9-inch scale renderings of the barnacles that inspired the previous piece, as well as the necklace in the "Ju Jewelry" project.
This 9x24 inch gouache painting conflates multiple views of Providence with an imagined nightscape. The fireworks distract from the subtle alien invasion taking place in the left corner.
I attempted to thoroughly embody the gist of RISD's Nature lab through my obsessive inventory drawing for design class.
These black paper cutouts are composed through the conflating of different silhouettes of various items in RISD's Nature Lab.
The composition is intended to carry an insinuated sense of escape and growth, the tree-like silhouette perched atop the flames of the lower piece and reaching up and away.
These ink landscapes depict portions of Providence after it snowed.
Prompted with creating a series of three ink drawings of interior spaces depicting a subtle narrative, I chose to create three renderings of stairs. The first view looks downwards at stairs in the dorm, the second straight-on at stairs in the Athenaeum, and the third up the stairs in the RISD Fleet Library, in order to establish a sense of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
Juxtaposing the skull with articles of clothing, makeup, and a koala hat, this "weird" memento mori touches upon elements of external adornment.
Basic charcoal self-portrait.
Instructed to make a massive ink self-portrait inspired by Chuck Close, I chose to utilize the grid of one inch squares to create a piece reflective of my love of jewelry, as well as the multi-faceted nature of people. I created a stamp for the linear outline of the stone shape. I then filled in each stamped outline with a brush, doing each stone shape individually so I could create dimensionality in the piece from both up close and afar.
