CONCEPT DESIGN + EXPLORATION

The following projects include selections exploring the phenomenon of 11:11. 11:11 contains metaphysical principals of synchronicity and a mathematical phenomenon of doubling and folding within itself. What did unlocking this experiment with the math and metaphysics marvel yield? As it turns out, when exercised visually using a series of for-loops and other methods in Java, the mythical number takes one on a deep dive journey inside of a D.C. Comic strip.

This design followed the process of disassembling + re-composing the United States Constitution's First Amendment through the lens of "electrAcity", a theory by Greg Ulmer that proclaims is the next phase of human consciousness in digital age and "is to digital media what literacy is to print". Consciousness in the digital age Ulmer believes presides external to the human body and confers the communicative abilities to express compound messaging. Employing the application of this theory to the deconstruction /re-composition of the First Amendment, electrAcity manifests through the metaphor of an octopus, where the process assumes the behaviors and motives of an octopus while exploring online and social media to aggregate polarized perspectives of the contemporary American political culture and meshing these perspectives into the main canvas that, under the deconstruction through time, holds the nebulous comprehension of the First Amendment.

The 'Arm Challenge' charged DesignMorphine Master's students with presenting their creative interpretation of an arm. This creative journey exemplifies my creative process, beginning with the conceptual and physical analysis exploring what defines an arm. Following this creative journey, a series of visual references including hand sketches, media, and Midjourney explorations marry the conceptual motifs. From this theoretical union, a parametric evolution emerges, and a new object is born.

Created in collaboration with John Kirk Drogsvold. My contributions included writing the script, selecting the music and AI-generated voice, creating the work featured in the second half of the trailer and the final design image, and collaborating on the sequencing of the film. Music selection and sequencing were developed collaboratively.

Little Critter to the left was the first in a series of illustrations following the evolution of a fictitious species.