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captured speech writing back: Toronto
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captured speech writing back: Toronto is an iteration of The Writing Lesson developed as a large-scale billboard to be displayed on the exterior of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, ON.
The Writing Lesson
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The Writing Lesson makes reference to the visual typography of the heavy metal subgenre known as black metal in creating a vernacular mode of writing to illustrate place names in Western Canada and Washington with indigenous origins. Early iterations of black metal music created in Norway sought to resurrect aspects of indigenous pre-Christian spirituality that had been violently displaced in the Christianization of Scandinavia by acts such as the destruction of pagan temples. Through a rudimentary photographic process using a hand cut stencil, the light of the sun has burned the names of places such as Masset, Skidegate, Chilliwack, and Yakima onto black paper with the hope that more will be revealed than concealed.
Rez Gas
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Rez Gas is an ongoing body of work in which images of independent, Aboriginal-owned gas stations are faded onto black construction paper.
Bad Photography
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An exploration of the boundaries of photography, what in photography constitutes the good / the bad.
Indie Rock Read-Along
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This design project was the result of a re-formating of an article from the Believer Magazine. I created an banger typeface with a ball piont pen to give the pull quotes a scratchy feel, and used a mixture of calm and chaotic landscape photography to intertwine with the article. Through out the article Judy Berman talks about different bands and songs in relation to spiritual sounds and influences, the songs are in read along order on the compact disc. The photography was taken on travel in and around Metro Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Portland, Seattle and San Francisco.
inVest
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This project was done in collabaration with Karston Smith, and Briana Garelli. Our aproach was to place the vest in to a high fasion langauge to project a macho safistcation to personal floatation devices. My contributions to the project was art direction, and logo design.
Alchemy: Turn Junk into Gold!
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This was a Special Project for Design Futures. For this assignment, I decided to take something that you wold normally throw away, and turn it into something that you could wear on your body.
The first part was to create clothing out of bubble wrap, and the second part was to design jewelry out of discarded cutlery.
