Holes in Space

This series revisits an form study exercise where I was tasked with producing images using a hole puncher. In this edition, I study the limites of the hole puncher’s reach as a physical constraint in order to create a rationale for folding paper to create rythmic punctures and patterns.  

*publication in progress

Braque Type

A typographic experiment using three shapes to create 26 letters of the english alphabet.

*work in progress

Trash Cam 

Trash Cam is an ongoing documentation of food packaging and food waste seen in Paris, Hanoi, San Francisco, New York, airports, and other international cities. An instagram account [wastefutures ] was created to continue to catalog findings. ︎︎︎ a small contribution about working in food design in 2020

Portals/ Orbits/ Scape/ Holes/ Land

A limited edition publication in collaboration with Megan Lynch created for the SF Art Book Fair. Portals/ explores landscape form through abstract image-making.

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Past Futures, edible insect dinner 

This pop up event is a collaborative effort between me, Monica Martinez, and Illya Haro. In this collaboration, we were interested creating an eating experience that would create a dialogue for guests to taste pre-colombian ingredients with insects as sustainable protein futures.

Hand. Food. Mouth. 

Hand. Food. Mouth is a publication about eating and wasting in the public domain. The work is composed of generative design research and various choreographies that map the relationship between the body and the meal.

Project Update
A second edition is in progress

Pocket Picnics

Prototypes for a wasteless future: Pocket Picnics is a series of plate-forms consumers can wear to mitigate the need for food packaging in the public domain.

Exhibition
MFA Design Thesis Show, 2018
FoodInno Symposium, 2018
Primer Conference, 2018

Memory Plastique 

Memory Plastique is a choreography of hands and amalgamated plate-forms designed to elevate intimate eating gestures. This video performance inspired the narrative for the cumulative MFA Design thesis publication, Hand. Food. Mouth. 

Cradle 

Cradle is a plate-form exploration made from stacking leftover food packaging and overlaying it with clay. The interaction between hands and the newly formed plate impressions reveal ergonomic possibilities that activate both hands for engaging with the meal. 

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Lunch Mass 

Lunch Mass is a collection of people’s lunch food packaging aimed to highlight eating and wasting in the public domain. 

Sweet Space 

Sweet Space is an interactive food making activity for the annual CCA-hosted Nightlife event at The California Academy of Sciences. 100 edible dishes were created by guests at the night of the event. 

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Co-created with Yunwen Tu, food design
Sponsored by CCA MFA Design

et sens 

et sens is a culinary mail-order service for consumers to reclaim sensory eating experiences using smells, textures and flavors from the past.

The concept is set in 2027 where tactile eating experiences are highly sought after due to rising temperatures, causing a world-wide decline of big agro.

Sponsored by The Institute for the Future

Exhibition/Presentation
The Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, 2017
Speculative Futures Meet Up, SF, 2017

Probes

What if the local government mandated zero-food waste? What tools and services might we need to safely redistribute leftovers? In this design fiction, Probes imagines a suite of devices that help vendors sanitize and verify safe consumption of second-hand food. 

Sponsored by The Institute for the Future

Exhibition/Presentation
The Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, 2017Speculative Futures Meet Up, SF, 2017

Sites Unseen

Hybrid Phonics

STA 100 Awards

Hybrid Phonics is a multi-sensory transcription of 26 letters spoken in four languages. The goal of this experiment is to [de]construct the phonetic alphabet into a new graphic language that is both visual and audible.

5 interventions

10e

10e is a web and print based index that organizes artists and designers based on ten elements of art and design. Taking inspiration from the Periodic table of elements, 10e organizes each artist (Ar) and designer (De) by prescribing 3 out of 10 elements that describe their work. 

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