Student work from Fall Semester, 2010

I took this snow day as an opportunity to organize and post images of the work made in my Architectural Design I and Sculpture I classes at Bowdoin College this past semester. You can see them here.

You already know what seems unknown; you have been here before, but only when you were someone else.

(Quote is from A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit;
Images of Victorian Infographics found here)

The frontier is everywhere.

(I think I am about to become obsessed with making gif animations!)

Rooms seemed hotter when he was in them, rains fell straighter, clocks slowed, sounds were amplified.

(quote from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
(photo by Nina Lily Photography)

Your Magic Is Real (For Layla), 2011

Made in collaboration with Mike Fleming.

We are growing up together.

I am too young for this.

Keeping track.

Amazing clock made by I don't know who.

(found here)

Photograph as sculpture.

by Geoffrey Cottenceau and Romain Rousset

(found here)

A new idea.

Imagine a jump rope that is circling endlessly in a dimly lit, otherwise empty room. It would use a mechanism similar to this one (so it can move on its own, without a person on each end):



and it would be made of a glowing white neon LED light rope like this:

And to top it all off, it would be running off of a motor that makes it spin at one rotation per second, so the rhythm made by the rope hitting the floor would mimic the ticking of a clock's second hand.

(Is imagining it enough, or should I go through the trouble of making it a reality?)

I like to look for rainbows.

I've been told that I take having fun very seriously.

Any takers?