Axon and Section

Thesis Boards

These are the boards that I presented at my final thesis exhibition. I slept for 17 plus hours after the show and gave my parents such a fright they almost called the police after pounding away/ calling me over and over at my apartment door for our scheduled celebratory dinner w/ my grandparents and brother and sister. I was very pleased with the resulting solution to my thesis' problem; I felt I had achieved a great deal of what I had set out to accomplish. Of course, I wish there had been time for more models...

Portfolio I

This is the portfolio I had created by the time I was graduating. The layout and graphic design are heavily influenced by the work of Radiohead's artist Stanley Donwood. I found it interesting at the time, but feel it distracts from the work a bit.

Portfolio O

This was my first attempt at a portfolio and at the time mostly consisted of art work from high school. (I took the class with mostly seniors, while I was a sophomore with only a couple architecture projects under my belt.) It also contains the only photo I have left of my 'lost project' the second page from the top. Those are some sketches and the model from my Elementary School design studio. The model was either thrown away or taken; the boards with my drawings were sent to Basel, Switzerland for the exhibit and were not returned. The odd white pages of the 'Ski Resort' were the first building project I did in school. The photos I took of the model were exceptionally horrible as is the layout for its pages shown here.

Portfolio II

This portfolio consists of some work done while at Jefferson Browne Design Group, my first job out of school. The projects range in scope from banks, to pool house buildings, small offices, residences, and retail. All work was done solely by me under the guidance of my principle. The firm had a predominant and somewhat constraining style and I left the firm with lots of good experiences in search of greater horizons at a larger firm.

Ravine Table

Ravine Table

More pictures of the table.

Ein Hud Masterplan

This board was my entry into the international competition to rebuild Ein Hud, a Muslim city in Israel. The major gist of it was to create a truly self-sustaining entity in both the city itself and the community center. Basic construction methods would be taught at the community center, which would be 'finished' by the townspeople themselves. With the knowledge they had gained through the experience of building the additions to the center they could, in theory, travel out into greater Israel and create a viable income.

Ceiling Cat Has

This series of mixed media poster sized products is based off the internet meme of 'lolcats'. Ceiling cat has taken on a symbol of a God-like being. The cat is usually depicted peering through a small cut in the ceiling. Usually there is some phrase the lolcat is saying. In these it is "Ceiling Cat Has" meaning that the cat has the people shown in the print with him in heaven. I have drawn ceiling cat at the top of each of the pages which are different photos printed from my computer. These photos are of important artists; from left to right - warhol, haring, krasner, pollock, dali, man ray, picasso, braque, warhol again, and basquiat. I chose pictures that had two artists. I did this to complete a triad ceiling cat along with the artists. This was done to represent the triads seen in religion. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. So this elevates these artists to god-like status. The blue and black at the tops represents the night time sky; this is often associated with the underworld and the heavens.

Ceiling Cat Has 1/5

Warhol and Haring are shown in this composition. The letter BVS are shown at the top of the work. This is for Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. The roman numeral III is shown as well. These are to reinforce the religious triad.

Ceiling Cat Has 2/5

Lee Krasner and her husband Jackson Pollock are shown in this work.

Ceiling Cat Has 3/5

Salvador Dali and Man Ray are depicted here along with Ceiling Cat.

Ceiling Cat Has 4/5

Here is Pablo Picasso and his friend Georges Braque. Drawn in the night sky above them is a sketch from Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon', taken from one of the women's noses. It reminded me of a stairway which is why i chose it. The 3 columns are from Freemason symbolism. They stand for the 'rule of three': beauty, wisdom, and strength.

Ceiling Cat Has 5/5

Here again is Warhol shown this time with Jean-Michel Basquiat. Drawn in the night sky is a trefoil, a geometric shape that expresses the Christian Trinity. Also shown is Gimel,the Hebrew numeral for three. Turned on its side is Basquiat's crown; with it's three points I felt it was fitting for the triple symbolism shown throughout the work.

Brick

Brick. 2001. Oil on particle board, 24" x 24".

In this I was trying to see all the color that made up a relatively boring mundane object that is a brick. The brick this came from had been exposed to the elements for around 250 years, but I'll admit that most of the color seen has taken a bit of artistic liberty.

Introscape, Grey Day

Introscape, Grey Day. 1999. Oil on paper, 19"x27"

This was an exercise from high school with landscape painting. We had to create a landscape in oil from any photo we (the students) chose. The picture was from a National Geographic of some Scottish hillside with a low stone wall. This painting shows how influential van Gogh's post-impressionistic style was to me. Almost all my work in high school used impressionist methods. As I grew as a artist I seemed to travel through the procession of artistic styles in history to Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, etc.