SENIOR PROJECT
MATERIALISATION OF PERSONAL DESIGN PHILOSOPHY AND PROCESS
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To me, design is not less or more of this or that, it’s part of how I chose to live my life more curiously and fearlessly. It’s a way of being. Design offers an excuse to enter into other worlds. It is an opportunity to find ways to be radically autonomous, celebrating all different perspectives, memories, moments, and narratives. I see my practice as a chance to do good, see transformation within and around me, and worship the ultimate Creator. This comes through for me as collecting, making connections, and always looking for opportunities to learn. My creative process is completely non-linear, it lives and functions in the tension space between the possible & impossible where dreaming and relentless ideation is a requirement.
CATEGORIES: ART, RESEARCH, PROJECTION, EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN, EXHIBITION DESIGN, BOOKMAKING, IDEATION.
PHILOSOPHY AND DESIGN RESPONSE
The following pages outline a hard copy of my Personal Design Philosophy and the rationale explaining and giving context to the final artwork. My philosophy describes design as a part of the way I go about my life. I am collecting, making new connections, and learning as I go. My senior project presents a visual abstraction of this process, stemming from my journey of gathering, analyzing, and linking disparate narratives, objects, and moments.
Watch my presentation explaining my personal philosophy.
PATTERNS FOR THE ABSTRACT ORBS
Throughout this project, I collected, documented, and scanned many objects and ephemera that I found interesting, and meaningful to me. After selecting 37 of those objects, digital artworks were made blending those in new and abstract ways. This symbolizes my process or referring to history, heritage, and research, and how genuine curiosity can aid in the creative process. These are the three final patterns used.
BOOKS DOCUMENTING EACH OF THE 37 OBJECTS USED TO MAKE EACH ORB
I chose to limit this to 37 pieces/objects represented in this installation because, to me, this feels like a number in transition. Unlike numbers 99 or 50, that feel like a milestone or the moment before a pause, 37 feels like it has a past and future. As a casual archivist, this is connected to the notion that the act of finding inspiration and looking for meaning is something that I do innately. It’s a way of being that involves and deals with multiple narratives that started long before I came across them, and lives on far beyond my interaction with them. It is in constant motion, the celebration of the mundane and the pockets of meaning and significance that each object holds.
In the end, I compiled a set of 3 zines documenting and celebrating each one of these objects. The photos are edited and presented in a visually interesting way, elevating the mundane and spotlighting it as something one would want to spend time with. Click on each book to preview the content.
FINAL EXHIBITION
When experiencing a digital depiction of my heterotopia mind palace process, you’ll see different objects connecting and morphing with others to create new forms which I’d describe as new narratives. This is projected on a wall and animated to show the connection between the objects. It’s an attempt to visualize the chaos that comes with being a collector, and the dialog of trying to condense and sort through meaning until reaching a synthesized outcome. As the viewer, one is invited to observe and participate in the process of collecting, connecting, and learning, and how that functions in a creative process as they associate their own experiences and create new meaning and connnection.