Exploring Materials

Finished product

Soft, Smooth, and Hard

Rough and Smooth

Rough and Hard

Soft and Hard, Rough and Smooth



A representation of soft/hard and smooth/rough using wood and metal. I now wish I would have pushed my use of the wood a little harder, and made a two more contrasting pieces of metal looking back at the actual requirements. However, I still think its really cool for a first year project and its currently hanging in my mother's bedroom.

Abstraction of the Anaheim Pepper

Looking deeper and deeper into an Anaheim Pepper, to final abstraction into a sculptural pathway.

I definatley love this project, however I did a typical stupid first year student mistake trying to cover up a flaw in a model at the last minute, stuck something rediculous on the front.....I will find a way to photoshop that our or create it as a 3-D Model for my portfolio....

30+2

Our first project of second year was to create a 32 square foot dwelling. Our dwelling brought the outdoors in incorporating natural light! We spent a week designing the space, a week building the wall units, and one week of on sight construction and assembly.
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Goddess Ritual

What a fun Year! I took this challenge of creating a tray and ritual to go along with it and applied it to an activity in my life. Drinking wine with my girlfriends. This is the pandoras box of ladies night complete with: a hand made storage chest, removable serving tray, cork screw, goblets, decanter, wine storage area,wine bag, and completed with a goddess ritual prayer.

Habitable Wall - James Turrell

Original design to be reworked and incorporated into my portfolio. The photos are a little yellow, but this things will all be resolved in time....in first year we had no clue of the wonders of Photoshop, or keeping up with photographing our work for that matter.

I look forward to reworking this project for my portfolio!

My Final Model.....#5 of tis very same design......but I believe #15 of all the models that didn't fit James Turrel's home in lovely Arizona.

Arial View

View of required storage space and serving area

Isometric View

Side view....I love this model. I can imagine laying out by the pool on a warm summer day sipping on an ice cold drink, watching the sun cast shades of blue all around me.

Back View

In Sunlight

Mini-Me View

Habitable wall with a scale model.



The challenge of this project was to create a habitable wall for a client specific to that clients needs and character. My client was James Turrel and I created a wall that was all about simple form, strong lines, and light.