Re/Interpret
Reinterpretation is transformation, from one medium to another, or from inspiration to physical manifestation. Not merely a desire to pay homage, but rather to build on conceptual foundations and twist them into something unique to place and time.
Slide: “Color Theory”
Slide: Cover Image for “Cinematic Place: Designing with the Language of Cinema”
Slide: Table of Contents for the class
Slide: “Black & White”
Cinematic Place:
Designing with the Language of Cinema
This project was developed to teach a class about the intersection of cinema and design. The class looks at cinema through nine different facets, considering time, color, document, and technique to draw parallels between various cinematic disciplines and traditional forms of art and design. This presentation was used as a test run of the class to a group of 20 students in Design Matters in Spring of 2022.
Slide: “Defining Cinematic Place”
Slide: “Art Imitates Life”
Full piece: “You Are a Black Hole and Your Gravity is Crushing Me”
Detail: Swarovski crystals embedded in the surface of the board
“You Are a Black Hole and Your Gravity is Crushing Me”
Black 3.0 Acrylic Paint, 14k Gold Watercolor Paint,
& Swarovski Crystal on plywood board
22”x22”
Chicago, 2023
This painting, made on a recycled plywood board, interprets the destructive loss of the self when consumed by the pull and charisma of another. The work examines and interprets the celestial elements of a black hole: the alluring accretion disk, the crushing gravitational forces that consume light and energy, and even the possibility of beauty in heart of destruction. Black 3.0 was used for it’s inherent light-absorbing nature, while a gold infused watercolor paint was used to depict an event horizon, alluring and reflective. The stones at the center represent the kernel of beauty found in some disastrous relationships, and reflects how intense pressure is capable of creation of diamonds and other precious stones.
Detail: 14k gold watercolor “accretion disk” adjacent to Black 3.0 non-reflective surface