LET'S TALK
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Master of Landscape Architecture I 2021.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Bachelor of Fine Art, with honors,
Design + Sculpture 2015.
Floor to ceiling windows extend an invitation to shift perspective. A story tall mirror drafts us in, as we circle round to a dog-legged door. Stepping through the glass door, we are greeted with ground.
MEDIUM is a courtyard immersed in matter,
an exploration in the development of brick + blossom,
a study and space centered in cycles,
where visitors venture over
gradiations of ground.
Transitioned by a chunky, considerable chip, brick guides us through:
1. soft, permeable sediment
populated by self-deciding, sprawling + sociably yuccas
2. through our introduced chip
3. to familiar, standardized 8x4x2” bricks
4. to 5’ 3” lengths, ordered by + indicative of their manufacture
5. to 2x2’ bench
to sit in the middle of mass,
descended 3’ into both the courtyard and a conversation of lifespan and
duration.
Looking out, our vision is filled with fields.
In winter,
a plain/plane of light, shadow, and texture.
In spring and fall,
a color field mingling blue and green Adam’s Needle and Small Soapwood Yuccas.
In summer,
a sculptural cloudscape of staggered white blooms,
suspended in calm.