The Mint Chair
My Grandmother’s home sat solidly within the slopes and slight undulations of the surrounding landscape. The split level home, had a massing of notable horizontality. Through a sliding screen door the kitchen opened to her garden. Rows of garden flowers were arranged in labyrinth-like manner. Running along the foundation of the home were three large peppermint beds. As if intentionally punctuating the house’s horizontal nature, the Peppermint plants climbed vertically. Saturday afternoons spent with my grandmother included simple tasks in her garden, one of which was picking peppermint for tea. Upon finishing our tasks, my brothers and I would come back into the house and relax in my grandfather’s favorite chair as we each enjoyed a glass of peppermint tea. The making of this chair was an exercise reinscribing my own memories of the moments just described through the tactile qualities the boucle fabric and the smell of fresh peppermint.
Simon
SIMON records electrical activity in the brain via an EEG monitor and transcribes it into color. Simon was on display at MakerFaire Ottawa in 2017 as part of their Biopresence exhibition. Adafruit then featured Simon in an article entitled SIMON: The Empathy Inducing Headset as well as Makezine, which highlighted various works in the exhibition.
Worthington Yards
In summer of 2017 I designed and fabricated a variety of pieces of furniture for Worthington Yards, an apartment complex located in Cleveland, OH. This series included a community work table, a parsons table and five benches.
RePrint
One of the roadblocks to the successful adoption of 3D printing in mainstream consumer and industrial culture remains the high marginal cost of printing parts relative to traditional manufacturing techniques. In the summer of 2014, I began to develop an Arduino based device to take waste product (PLA plastic, a biodegradable plastic produced from corn starch) and turn it into recycled filament for use with consumer and industrial grade 3D printers. Low cost 3D printing promotes larger, more diverse maker communities, both in terms of socio economic status and field of study. Along with reducing the high cost of 3D printing my research reduced waste associated with the rapid prototyping process. This included residual material, support material left over from the 3D printing process, and failed 3D prints.
Meditation Pillow
Meditation Pillow, Was commissioned by Tritex Corporation. The goal was to create an ergonomic pillow for mass production.
Sound Panels
Untitled (Control Panels: All You Need Is Love) 2017 Plywood, paint, speakers, LEDs, electronics, computer, software. 24' x 42" x 8"
Fabricated for Joshua Penrose