We Present Issue # 6
Publication Design, 2023
Art Direction: Brian Johnson and Silas Munro at Polymode Studio.
Common Ground
Publication Design, 2023
Art Direction: Adam Michaels and Shannon Harvey at IN-FO.CO
Instagram Editorials
Art Direction and Graphic Design, 2023
Wading Into Collapse
Publication and Exhibition Design, 2023
A collaborative project with Jack Tufts, Wading Into Collapse became a publication and installation shown in the RISD Design Commons in 2022. Using the personal as a way to bring others in to the experience, we created an installation to tell the stories of our homes, Iceland and Louisiana, to show the ways the climate is already dramatically shifting in each place.
We took this concept, climate change, this term that feel so vast, a hyper-object that seems difficult to grasp, and showed the ways in which the climate is already being impacted in our homes with personal stories: mine of seeing a glacier declared “dead-ice,” in Iceland and Jack’s of his evacuation during hurricane Ida.
When people think of climate change, they often imagine some sort of dystopic futuristic scene, or something that will only become serious in the year 2100. We find comfort in thinking of the immediate, planning out of lives in hours, days, weeks, and months. To imagine what the world will look like in 78 years is intimidating, the image is so far in the future that it is blurred, too slippery to grasp. But ecological collapse doesn’t exist in sci-fi futures, it is happening now.
Soft Ruptures
Publication Design, 2022
The book includes documentation of projects made during my time at RISD and interviews with Mindy Seu, Kathleen Sleboda, and Elaine Lopez.
Eyjapæja (Island Girl)
Video and Installation, 2022
Full video here.
Useless Objects
Video, 2022
Made with filming assistance from Hannah Suzanna. Full video here.
RISD Grad Show
Identity Design, 2021
Full site here.
Inventory
Publication Design, 2022
A Story that Never Begins
Video, 2022
“We like to imagine that our life follows some kind of trajectory, like the plot of a novel, and that by recognizing its arc we might, in turn, become its author. But often what we feel instead is a sense of precariousness—a gut-level suspicion that hard work, thrift, and following the rules won’t give us control over the story, much less guarantee a happy ending. For all that, we keep on hoping, and that persuades us to keep on living.”
The video works as an introduction to something that never actually begins. The video script draws heavily on text from both “Ghosts of My Life” and “Cruel Optimism.” I weave the phrasing from these two texts with my own writing.