Void Spa
Void Spa is an immersive installation which invites participants into three activations (Rubble grid, Noise Bath, Trash Burial) that replicate a contemplative cave experience with full darkness and harsh ambient sound.
This project examines how rites develop within post-industrial subcultures, especially through sensory design.
It also troubles extractive and appropriative use of Black and Brown spirituality within luxury wellness.
The pieces of our protected or disrupted traditions are still alive in their syncretic adaptations and media representations.
Installed at Recess Art with Akeema-Zane in 2023
This project examines how rites develop within post-industrial subcultures, especially through sensory design.
It also troubles extractive and appropriative use of Black and Brown spirituality within luxury wellness.
The pieces of our protected or disrupted traditions are still alive in their syncretic adaptations and media representations.
Installed at Recess Art with Akeema-Zane in 2023
Personal Lexicon
The Personal Lexicon card deck is a tool for discovery generated from the internal mythology of the user.
Cards are tools to cultivate self knowledge, ritual practice and social connection.
Decks are generated through a 1 or 3 month long facilitation of sensory research.
An arc of black bridge-sized cards rests on a light wood table. Two light skinned hands emerge from a black sweatshirt with short, bare nails.
The hand on the left is pulling one card away from the spread. On the chest of the sweatshirt, there is a white rectangular logo that reads ‘realm’ in thin white lettering. Two light skinned hands with short bare fingernails each hold half of a split deck of cards. The hand on the left reveals a white card that reads ‘realm’ in black serifed type. The hand on the right has a bent index finger on a black card, preparing to bridge shuffle.
Cards are tools to cultivate self knowledge, ritual practice and social connection.
Decks are generated through a 1 or 3 month long facilitation of sensory research.
The hand on the left is pulling one card away from the spread. On the chest of the sweatshirt, there is a white rectangular logo that reads ‘realm’ in thin white lettering.
Visible Lexicon
The Visible Lexicon cards are a minimal illustrated deck of cards inspired by Rorschach, gesture drawing, memory games and playing cards. Free of any narrative or numerical content, they can be used however the user decides.
Four black lines cross on a white background. Each line is wavy like the surface of water or a meandering breeze
Continuous black lines cross to form alternating sharp angles and rounded sides like fruit. At the top of the mirroring shape, sharp corners jut upward like incomplete arrows. The shape rests on closed points
Hyphae
Hyphae is a mobile platform for intrapersonal & interpersonal regulation.
The platform has three primary functions:
1. organize tasks, ideas, needs, interests and resources
2. support users’ navigation of routines or projects based on energy level, attention span, pain scale, emotional threshold and motivation
3. Coordinate support and care among intimate clusters of users
The platform has three primary functions:
1. organize tasks, ideas, needs, interests and resources
2. support users’ navigation of routines or projects based on energy level, attention span, pain scale, emotional threshold and motivation
3. Coordinate support and care among intimate clusters of users
Ritual/Routine/Regime
Ritual/Routine/Regime is an endurance auto-performance and archival process.
With every change of the season (solstice/equinox), a new set of three workbooks guides the practice of everyday life.
Each workbook has three section with prompts to document financial habit, diet, lunar cycle, creative work, household chores, wardrobe, self edification, physical practice and card reading.
(images coming soon)
With every change of the season (solstice/equinox), a new set of three workbooks guides the practice of everyday life.
Each workbook has three section with prompts to document financial habit, diet, lunar cycle, creative work, household chores, wardrobe, self edification, physical practice and card reading.
(images coming soon)
Stim Library
Stim Library is a collection of handheld self stimulation toys available for public use.
Stim toys are selected and designed for durable body safe materials and novel sensory qualities.
Stim toys are selected and designed for durable body safe materials and novel sensory qualities.
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Asemic Palace
Asemic Palace is a ritualized, non-verbal play score.
Play within this structure emphasizes imaginative self-expression, dynamic world-building and tender witnessing.
Melding the spontaneous joy of childhood games with the sophistication of adult nuance, the project aims to recontextualize sensuality beyond sexual acts.
Play within this structure emphasizes imaginative self-expression, dynamic world-building and tender witnessing.
Melding the spontaneous joy of childhood games with the sophistication of adult nuance, the project aims to recontextualize sensuality beyond sexual acts.
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Fantasy Fruits4Day Dreamers
Fantasy Fruits 4 Day Dreamers is a forthcoming workshop series for supporting creative practice with dream matrices.
Groups of oneironauts will construct projects based on messages, images, ideas and inventions from dream space.
Groups of oneironauts will construct projects based on messages, images, ideas and inventions from dream space.
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