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Someplace Beautiful // Something Dreadful (2024, continuous)
It started as a short-story concept and has since become something much greater. Reading this description does not entitle you to any spoilers; you’ll have to expereience the story yourself. I’ve made this story into a space for experimenting with a variety of different mediums: screenwriting, digital collage, soundtrack creation, 3D rendering, text-adventure design, and whatever else the future of this ongoing project happens to hold. I’ve made updates to the UI since releasing the initial version of the site, aiming to increase clarity and consistency.

>view the code on GitHub
>go to site

GO OUTSIDE (2023)
GO OUTSIDE is an interactive multimedia project that aims to explore what alternative relationships to the net may look like. What if your phone could be used as a catalyst for further connection with the physical world?

Using GitHub Pages allowing for version control, I compiled a series of webpages that feature repurposed video footage converted to gifs to override browser defaults disabling autoplay on mp4 files. The selected clips show the imagined inner lives of street furniture.

Adventurers can now step outside – away from their computers – and scan QR codes on city streets. Lamp posts, trees, trash cans, and fire hydrants have gained a new dimension of interactivity. Look inside, outside.

>view the code on GitHub
>go to site

NYT Connections Remake (2024)
A non-programmer friend of mine sent me a link to her ChatGPT-generated Connections replica and asked me to play a puzzle she’d written herself. After an honorable glance at the page, I texted back, “oh god, this is horrendous,” and “I’m going to code Connections from scratch instead of solving your puzzle.” This turned out to be much more difficult than I’d imagined. But I’m not a quitter.

>view the code on GitHub
>go to site

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Websurf (2023)
The main intention with this site was to keep bandwidth usage to a minimum. Keeping in line with minimal constraints, the site features a limited color palette and very few graphics. Testing the extent of website minimalism, one page is nearly entirely blank.

>view the code on GitHub
>go to site

Hurricane Fallen Log Photo Booth (2024)
It was love-at-first-sight. A fallen cherry tree on the roadside. Toppled by the hurricane and segmented by whoever was hired to clean up afterwards, this log called to me. I recruited some help to cart the log a mile up the road and six flights of stairs to my dorm suite where I then situated the two-hundred pound beast for a photoshoot. A couple blackout curtains and one greenscreen later, a photobooth was born.

3D-Printed Glasses (2025)
Modeled on Autodesk Fusion and 3D-printed using PLA filament on a Prusa Mini, these glasses were made to hold color-tinted acrylic sheets for the purpose of viewing altered-perspective video in a gallery setting. The first iteration of glasses was modeled with the intent of printing them as a single continuous piece. This method of printing revealed itself to be wasteful, requiring excess support structures which led to a suboptimal printing time. All of the following glasses were printed in two parts. Before printing any full models using the two-part printing method, I designed and tested clip mechanism prototypes that would connect the two printed halves together. Once a working clip mechanism was established, I modeled a new version of the frames that would print as a front and back half, requiring minimal supports and halving the print time. Errors that occurred after this step mainly regarded adjustments in dimensional tolerances and positioning.

A Machine For Considering Colonialism (2022)

== hand-cut cardboard boxes + white acrylic paint + hot glue + landscape photography + projector. Slime animations drawn in Procreate on my iPad. The landscape photographs were either taken by me or a friend and used with permission. Overlayed sludge .gifs on the photographs and set the animations so that they slowly desynchronize. Think about it.

The Wading Room (2023)
Sourcing art and commentary from local Asheville artists, The Wading Room is well-aware of its own unremarkable nature. What’s another zine but another zine? This unremarkable zine turns your average 8.5”x11” sheet of printer paper into a well-designed piece of future garbage. Artworks of many mediums make it into the zine: film photography, linocut prints, poetry, and other fantastic beasts. Artworks are organized and formatted digitally using FireAlpaca; they are then printed, sliced, and stapled before being birthed into the world as issues of The Wading Room.

>view the pdf

Photography (2022, continuous)
A few years ago, I bought a camera from my friend who at the time was running an online camera sales and refurbishing business. Along with the camera, I was gifted numerous rolls of different films to test out. The first roll I tested was Portra400.

My mission with the first run of photos was to learn how light interacted with film. What time of day is best for taking photos? What counts as too bright or too dim? I took some interesting shots of sunlight spotlighting objects through trees. The second roll I chose to work with was a roll of black-and-white film. I tried to apply what I learned about light on color film to this new roll with varying results. Some shots I had underestimated how much light would be absorbed, others were the opposite. The roll currently in my camera is Tungsten800. My mission with this roll has been to play with reflections: mirrors, windows, water.

3D-Printed Bookmark (2025)
This was essentially my first 3D-print design. I drew the first draft in Procreate on my iPad. The drawing was then transferred to Illustrator to give it a few millimeters of dimension and convert it to an .obj file. The .obj file format is accepted by the 3D print slicer program, and from there it was able to be printed. The first print immediately brought to light a major flaw in the initial design; the absence of an infill. I’d made the mistake of thinking a plastic paperclip would function like a metal one. I redesigned the paperclip to have an entirely solid body, rather than just an outline. This version printed rather well and became the final design.

Wire-Frame Wolf Head (2024)
This is what happens when you pick up a hefty roll of wire from ACE hardware.

Building the head was sort-of a two-part process. First, I made a contraption that fit my head and would allow for me to build upon it. The contraption consisted of two wire loops and a series of interconnected archways. From there, I was able to build outwards to form various wolf-like facial protrusions. I regularly took process images and looked in a mirror to verify proportion accuracy.

Once I was content with the shapings of the armature, the second part of the process could begin: blocking-in the outer materials. The outer form of the head is made up of soft fabrics. I hand-crocheted scrap yarn across the length of the wiring and then filled in each segment in the same hand-crochet fashion. The eye sockets were equipped with a polyester mesh to create a viewing-window and finished off with buttons and green cataphote tape.

COPLAC Icons (2023)
The organization (COPLAC) was in the process of modernizing their website. Their web developer hired me to create an updated set of icons to match the new modernized website design. I considered relevant associations and generated numerous sketches for possible designs. After endless iterations, the designs were ready to be created in Illustrator.

>view on COPLAC's official website

Digital Stickers (2020, continuous)

Stickers are drawn in Procreate. The birds were inspired by my bout with philosophy podcasts. Bird color palette inspired by a multi-channel pen I bought at a Japanese stationary store in Brooklyn. Fishes are part of a series that began when I attempted to create a sticker that could function as a sort of non-reaction– a fish floating in a test tube, idle and expressionless. What followed was a series of intentionally-bad puns centered around the title of the set, Fish Tubes. Hence: fish boob-tube, fish tub, fish tube of toothpaste. The sort.

Snake Stop-Motion (2024)
Dry-erase markers, shower wall, digital camera. This little film took about five hours to make. No plan, no plot in mind. Just a girl and some markers. What better to do with a tile wall than re-create a pixel game? I propped a camera up in front of my shower and started drawing. I’d erase and add tiles as needed to move and lengthen the snake. Once the marker started to run out of ink, I panicked and rushed to figure out how to end the film. Snake finds love in the fading ink of dry-erase marker.