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Quality of life

As people we are constantly given the opportunity to improve the quality of our lives through simple decisions. We can take responsibility for ourselves how we use materials in our every day life.
  • Wooden Glasses
    Wooden Glasses
    Laminated veneer and wood glue goes as far as you let it.
  • Wooden Glasses
    Wooden Glasses
    I made these wooden glasses because a pair broke. I made them to fit my face from scrap wood and glue that I borrowed from a friend. I'm not especially interested in eventually being properly trained to make things out of wood. I did alright here, while simply understanding better my relationship to the materiality of daily life.
  • My Bike
    My Bike
    This is for the small community of custom bike makers in Baltimore especially. If you don't know, I hope you get the opportunity to learn the joy of riding a bike. Especially one made clever.
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    • 24 Information Library

    These were put in place for people to share books and print resources anonymously, for free, and in the interest of generating a discourse outside of private media. Ideally the internet would do this but the until the internet is accessible to everyone, especially those who are affected the most by class struggle, making material always more available has been a personal goal for me.
    • Map of 24 hour libraries
      Map of 24 hour libraries
    • 24 hour library
      24 hour library
      33rd and Greenmount
    • 24 hour library
      24 hour library
      North and Charles
    • 24 hour library
      24 hour library
      Pennsylvania and North
    • 24 hour library
      24 hour library
      Pennsylvania and North
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    • various puppet prototypes

    These are prototypes for puppet-like body extensions for performances. the first a hand makes a appearance in it's 8' version in the 2010 "rooms play" and the tentacles makes an appearance in the 2010 pedestrian service exquisite as part of the trans-modern festival..
    • Tentacle
      Prototype for the 2010 Trans-modern festival "Pastiks" performance
    • Hands
      Prototype made for costumed performance
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    • The First Rooms Play

    Rooms play is a format of performance where individuals walk through a series of rooms with a chapter of a book in each, where they are the main character. Making a type of assembly line of intimate situations that all form a narrative provides an experience that is all together transforming and challenging to the expectations we have of everyday. The play itself and its execution form the key difference between collage and montage. With collaboration at the core of the project each performer was given complete creative control and established solid working relationships with the collaborators around them.
    Interview: http://www.transmodernfestival.org/2010/?p=2608
    • Rooms Play March 2010
      Rooms play is a social experience/experiment that gives the audience an opportunity to be the main character of a confrontational journey. The play consists of a string of intimate performances that occur back to back in a constructed labyrinthian space
    • Stills
      Stills
    • Stills
      Stills
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    • One Play, No Actors

    I'm so confident in our ability to find true empathy with one another that I'd guess we can find empathy with machines even. So I'm slowly constructing the members of a drama who are all the least likely characters you could identify with. Gestures and motions of the human body are powerful signifiers.

    Machines and their limited, typically repetitive function are like prisoners. forever dooms to service, or decommissioning. It's a sad story, the history of technology. The drama of technology doesn't end either; not until it gets turned off.
    • Laughing/Crying, generally overwhelmed
      Windshield wiper motor from a scrap yard, dress form and pvc pipe works against itself. these are powerful convulsions. The car battery in its hips must be wrestled to turn it off.
    • Run away/to me/somewhere! (nowhere)
      Card board and hosiery, who knew?
    • Falling Forever
      The cloud backdrop is on a roll, constantly ascending. The figure, cardboard and hosiery, falls suspended with a (seven speed) motor driven pulley system.
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    • Paintings

    These are approaches to analog television that I began working on last year.
    • First Broadcast
      This is my first analog television set. Acrylic on cardboard
    • First Broadcast detail
      This is a detail of my first analog television set. Acrylic on cardboard
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