SKETCHBOOK
FIELD NOTES ON HOW WE SEE .
Combining collected images, personal photography, and editorial layouts, I enjoy reflecting on how we experience visual and material culture through media. The following posts are a medley of observations on fashion, nature, and architecture.
Stand-out Pieces:
How CVC Stones and AK Studio’s collaged mood board and product imagery re-imagines product storytelling on Instagram.
Photography and The Close-look
I’ve recently started to sift through my collection of magazine tear-sheets — singular and groups of images serve as prompts on a given subject. The following slides examine what’s at stake when photographing fashion in detail.
What if the container resembles the contents ?
The following slides are a collection of photographs I took while visiting the Museum of Natural History in Paris. A time capsule of scientific display, the museum’s building itself reads like forms of natural history. Can you spot the built and natural endo- and exo-skeletons on view?
The Perils of Finding and Making Beauty in the Anthropocene
The following tear-sheet response was spurred by a visit to a beach where I momentarily mistook a glass shard for a seashell fragment. The post reflects the dangers of misidentification and aestheticization in the Anthropocene and dusts off some old readings on the ethics of beauty such as Elaine Scarry’s writing, On Beauty and Being Just.
How do we perceive climate ?
In August 2018, I participated in The Perennial Institute's week-long educational project in Berlin exploring creativity through the lens of plants. Following the program, I was approached by the Institute and The Learned Pig magazine to craft a visual essay inspired by my experience in Berlin. What followed was a sensory visual photo-essay on "how to see climate through plants" photographed across three conservatories at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens in New York.
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