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Meaningful Metallurgie
A Family of Hardware

2025

Solid Brass

Meaningful Metallurgie is a collection of hardware intended for the exhibition of art, objects, and the everyday. Crude wax carvings carry the fingerprint of the maker - an act of resistance against soulless mass produced pieces of hardware.

Modifiable Mosaic: This piece is the most interactive and customizable of this collection with 10 brass pegs to hold or hang your possessions in a variety of different layouts. Use it to display items that otherwise would sit unseen inside a drawer or display things you wish to never lose, like your keys or grocery list.

Stationary Vase: This bud vase encourages ritual interaction with the user. By displaying the inherently short life and death cycle of a flower, the user has the option to replace the wilting flower with a fresh one.

Easel Shelf : This shelf is for celebrating flat objects. Use a single Easel Shelf to display postcards, photographs, recipes, or love notes. Place two shelves together to display larger objects, like a record or license plate.

Vanity is a Sin
Medicine Cabinet + Pill Dispenser

2025

Oak, Mirrored Acrylic, and Pills

The societal pressures put on women to stay young are ever present and inescapable. Anti-ageing serums. Cosmetic surgeries. Botox. Ozempic. Fillers. Corsets. Dieting. The list is endless. Beauty standards aren't meant to be achievable - always out of reach no matter how fast you chase.

Vanity is a Sin represents trying to keep up with the financial, mental, and physical toll that the beauty industry depends on. Keep turning and turning the dispensing wheel and maybe you'll get a dose of youth. But be warned, turn it for too long and lose the limited time you have on this earth.

Deeply Rooted
Pair of Side Tables

2024

Stained Maple and Ceramic

Wildflower or weed? The thistle grows regardless, rooting itself in sidewalk cracks and highway medians. Resistance as freedom is deeply rooted in us and in nature - let it grow.

Commissioned work

Picture Frames for Objects
A Mini Series of Display Cases

2022

Slumped Glass, Maple, and Walnut

Displaying, Protecting, and Encasing. These ideas brought forth a small collection of frames dedicated to the safe keeping of sentimental objects—ensuring longevity through preservation.

The Worship of Things A Shrine to Sentimental Objects

2022

Walnut, Maple, and Slumped Glass

What drives humans to form sentimental bonds with inanimate and often inconsequential objects? And furthermore how can we preserve this relationship?

In hopes of better understanding the answers to these questions, I developed a physical space for storing and celebrating sentimental objects. Presented in the form of an altar, I want the user to consider this structure and the items it contains to be sacred.Its intention is to get people to reflect on their belongings, and to reconsider how we treat and live alongside our possessions.

The altar space and the inanimate objects encased within would differ depending on what each individual occupant sees fit. Unlike the altars that have historically served deities, this structure pays tribute to the false idols of human creation. With this altar, the individual will be in control of what is sacred, even if it is just to them.

Ornamental Utilities

2021

Walnut Sconce and Chair

Furniture in and of itself is art; this chair emphasizes that by embracing both ornamentation and functionality. While the scale of this object implies that its intended user is a child, it’s gothic style and fragile glass insert suggests otherwise. Featuring two French cleats hidden between the barley twist legs, this chair can exist on the ground or as a wall ornament. Allowing its occupant to put the chair away while still keeping it in plain sight. On the wall, Ornamental Utilities acts as a shelf and a sconce.

The centerpiece of this chair is a kiln casted sheet of glass that protrudes through the outer side of the seatback. Then glass form depicts an array of hand tools, such as pliers and wrenches as well as other hardware, including bolts and screws. The mint green sheet mimics the look of milk glass with the luminescent quality of jadeite.

The candle holder protrudes from the seat and sits close enough to the seatback to illuminate the glass insert. When not in use, the candle holder is stored upside down, flush within the seat, so as to not interfere with the traditional purpose of a chair: sitting. The candle holder also functions when entirely separate from the chair. This quality helps to reiterate the aforementioned idea that a chair is never “just a chair.”

One-sided Confessional

2020

Plywood and a Crayola 64-pack

This 6ft 7in confessional transforms any room into a space for self reflection. Nurture your inner child when coloring, journaling, or attending online therapy appointments.

Solomonic Columns

2019

Sister lamps that work well together, but each prefers to be the lone centerpiece of a room.

The main shape of this fixture is an extended barley twist that disappears into a solid stand. By using a CNC machine to mill a negative of the desired twist into a plywood mold ensures each cast is identical. Rockite, fiberglass, and black pigment are the secret ingredients for casting the body and base of these monstrosities. Add chicken wire and some CVS gauze and you’ve got yourself a pair of matching shades.

Measurements (including shade):

Left Lamp: 5’11”

Right Lamp: 6’2”

Queen Anne’s Throne

2019

Upholstered chair created with Rhino for CNC milling.

Exploring the similarities between religion and mass production. Gothic tradition meets 21st century machinery—think gothic revival-revival. It’s towering height mimics the awe-inspiring European cathedrals intended to strike fear into the hearts of any passersby. Other architectural elements include gingerbread trim, pointed arches, and—the piece de resistance— a rose window.

*Gargoyle not included.

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