I am a New York City based designer, filmmaker, animator, creative, and artist. I work with a diverse range of clients from corporate and finacial to artistic and experimental.
This is some of my work, in roughly chronological order.
RISK/LOGIC
Risk/Logic investigates the distinct and organized subculture of barebakcing through its own words by sourcing text from its prolific blogging community, and representing this text to a wider audience.
The project consists of a glass book, laser-etched with key entries from blogs where men discuss barebacking, as well as raw data and analysis from contrasting sources such as the Center for Disease Control. These blog entries are the heart of the piece, and are laid out to form an abstract narrative. As the book progresses, major themes are revealed including: knowingly taking HIV+ semen into one’s body, dealing with criticism from others, the act of knowingly seroconverting an HIV- person, struggling with a sense of inevitability of contracting the virus, the notion that HIV is no longer the death sentence it once was, and the complex logic that justifies this risky sexual behavior.
Glass is fragile, beautiful, sharp and strong. If you aren’t careful, this book could cut you. This book could break in your hands. The laser etching is difficult to read unless the light hits it the right way. The viewer must be in close proximity to the object in order to decipher its meaning. The object forces the viewer to deal with difficult text extremely close up. It is simultaneously inviting and repulsive, drawing the viewer in with its aesthetics but pushing them away with the fear of breaking it. When sitting on top of each other, the panes reveal a three-dimensional array of text and meaning that can’t be read, but can be understood.
