Portfolio

Don’t want to wade through blog posts? Here’s a sampling of projects and exhibitions, though you can find more work in the Making and Experimenting sections of this site. My current main work in progess is This Land is Alive.

The Land Loves Us

a view of the exhibition from outside. it is dark out but the lights are on, making the brown chromatograms and blue streamers glow

Black Walnut Trees (Studies) Exhibition + Future Project

Pothi Books for Chromatograms

cyanotype of dried chive blossoms, with random areas of it toned with silver nitrate

A New Method For Bleaching and Toning Cyanotypes

three stacked copies of the "Designing with Waste: open source collaboration in experimental design" hardcover book

Criteria for Planet-Centric Design, MDes Thesis pt 4

screenshot of the Designing with Waste home page. Oversized text says, "Designing with Waste Means..." Below that are three clickable tiles titled "recycling", "learning", and "sharing"

Designing With Waste, MDes Thesis pt 3

gif of flipping through the first few chapters eBook pages, from the table of contents to the

Pasta Water for Designers, MDes Thesis pt 2

white models on a white background, from left to right: speaker, drawer pull, speaker, lamp, chess piece, speaker, door handle

The Cai Modeling Materials, MDes Thesis pt. 1

gif of a ring light being held up by a human arm. Three frames in the gif show a soft carbon fiber switch hanging loose as a string and a ball, with the switch about to be connected, and with the switch connected and the light shining

Carbon Fiber Experiments

and Indian woman looking in the mirror of a bathroom mirror as she puts a sticker with a cut-out over her eye. A sheet of stickers is next to her on the counter

FR Shields

gif of a paper chandelier as the camera zooms in from showing the whole chandelier to going up the chandelier to show the geometric interior, the chandelier is faceted and vaguely flower-like

Paper House

render of a wardrobe rack, lamp on a pedestal, and a chair in a white space

The Bentwood Bedroom Collection

An Indian woman picking a tomato at teh grocery store and putting it into her grocery backpack

Grocery Backpack

Gif of Mari standing then kneeling with a fist pumping into the air in front of her panels

A Haptic Blank