Sample work from my final year thesis project.
The Dream Machine: A Jungian Dream Experience in Aldeburgh's Martello tower.
The project proposes a 'pilgramage' to a sculptural monument of the conscious and unconscious psyche, The Dream Machine will offer an opportunity to ‘reveal, illuminate and transform’ your subconscious inner frameworks.
The program is hinted at on approach through sculptural 'bursts' through the building fabric that connect to a central kinetic dream sculpture within the tower.
Visitors will enter the main inner world contemplative space to view a central ‘Rorschach’ kinetic mobile - illuminated with motion spotlights, subtly moved by exterior winds - to induce a state of meditative contemplation.
Then they can enter ‘Dream Drawing’ rooms to express any themes that emerge into a visual response. (I built a human scale prototype of the drawing apparatus - see adjacent videos to view.) ‘Outer world’ contemplative spaces - pods bursting from the tower windows - offer moments to also connect with a sense of a greater whole.
A Jungian dream therapist will then assist with understanding their response, hopefully leading to a greater connection or transformation within the ‘self’.
A final communal reconnection space - A dream like roof dome - offers visitors the opportunity to reconnect with each other and the world by gazing up to the sky.
Digital collage / visualisation of the exterior approach to the tower.
Handcut card model depicting a fragmented, dream-like interpretation of the journey to the martello tower and surrounding context.
Imagining the shadow mobile as a spatial intervention.
Ceramic tower interior on bespoke steel arm I designed, on a wooden box with a 1:100 hand painted map of the exterior site context.
'Cli Forum' - Our brief was to create a community forum for engaging in performative discourse of climate change.
The Weavers Ark is my proposal of an apocalyptic 'Human Story Archive' - An absurd democratic exercise in preserving human stories in the event the apocalypse, through craftsmanship.
The design re-imagines London Canal Museum as a 'spatial tapestry' - a series of looms designed as functional interior thresholds weaving across the building floors.
I took inspiration from historical representations of 'end times' stories such as the medieval Apocalypse Tapestries in Château d'Angers.
The Idea:
Should we prepare for the apocalypse? If human life as we know it was to cease to exist, how could we leave a final positive mark or ‘relic’ of our existence?
High-tech seed vaults, gene banks? Or something simpler?
Stories are the very fabric of human existence. We are narrative creatures. Storytelling has passed on thousands of years of human life, carrying forward the spirit of those who have existed in vastly different eras to our present time. In the end, it’s all we have.
So, is our oldest tool the best bet for preservation of life?
This project explores how to preserve human stories - in the event of the hypothetical future apocalypse - so even if we may not exist, the human story will.
Hand threaded 'spatial tapestry' depicting the program in medieval 'end times' imagery.
Loom as a structure.
CAD drawn paper model nets to hand cut white card model of the London Canal Museum Facade.
2nd Year Design Project.
Our brief was to investigate the theme of ‘soft/hard’ duality by working with a pair of materials, which we would then create a retail space from for a chosen brand.
My materials were timber and wax, and my brand was Kepler womenswear.
I created a ‘riddled landscape’, transported from the Kepler world to the New Bond Street site. An orchestration of monolithic ‘spirited’ objects, each presenting the found relics of the Kepler women.
A result of intuitive material explorations of hand-carved wood and wax and earthly investigation of boulder forms. The created ‘artefacts’ are seemingly imbued with a felt - but not seen – spirit and energy to be sensed by those drawn to them.
Hand drawn/digital concept image responding to the client brief.
Investigating the myths & legends of wax to imbue spirit & narrative into my next material explorations. Hand drawn.
Hand drawn investigations of timber myths & legends.
Hand carved balsa wood & melted wax crayon forms. Creating dialogue between the two materials.
Hand carved maple burl & apple wood forms set in beeswax.
Creating a spatial intervention of 'soft/hard' material dialogue. A landscape of mythic forms to be explored.
Creating a spatial intervention of 'soft/hard' material dialogue. A landscape of mythic forms to be explored.
Riddled landscape design in existing site.
Showing the mythic forms as clothing displays.
Design steps to turn carved wood form into a spiral staircase.
2nd year design project.
Our brief was to explore the theme of ‘time’ and create a screening space at the OXO tower Bargehouse site.
I looked at how certain moments in life can ‘warp’ our perception of time and explored form-finding methods to represent that notion spatially.
The final idea was a hypnotic ‘time-warp’ screening experience intended to recalibrate visitors’ mindframes to one of optimism and possibility.
Intuitive journey explorations in the site confines @ 1:1.
Exploring thread form finding at 1:1 scale in room to reveal a new 3d form.
Observational drawings/paintings from life drawing classes and museum scuplture studies.
