My carrier bag explores mediums of engagement as ways of understanding the multifaceted nature of architecture, transcending material form and challenging conventional practices. Embracing architecture as a medium, it draws upon public art, architectural representation, illustration, and creative writing as pedagogical tools for observing past, present, future, and their overlapping temporal moments.
Rooted in the borderlands of El Paso, I am a practicing architectural designer and everyday observer, currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. I carry a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of Utah and a Master of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
Moleskine: A space to activate my everyday, pocket-sized ideas-- though they sometimes extend beyond my pockets as they touch the places and people I’ve encountered. A medium through which these experiences unfold and take shape through the pages of my Moleskine.
Comics: The accumulation of simple ideas builds complexity. A medium of vignettes moving between the speculative and the real, the intangible and the tangible, a space where my mind can escape the everyday, while at the same time finding ways to reflect upon it.
Schwinn stuff: A medium through which to rediscover what time has left behind, to appreciate the forgotten, and to reconnect with a past shaped by human hands. Something purely analog, to get my hands grimy and greasy. This is, attention to the object
Crayon: A tactile process of paying attention, an invitation to get lost in the details. There is something to unfold in the layering of waxy goodness on paper with my collection of Swiss-made Caran d’Ache crayons-- a process that is both exploratory and forgiving. A medium, though, to capture a fleeting moment, then to layer speculation.
Film: This is my AE-1 a practice of being as attentive to my camera settings as I am to the moment before me. A medium of collaboration with exposure, aperture, shutter, film, focus, and composition. An engagement with the constraints and uncertainties inherent in capturing a single moment.