Ambient Sound Texture

Kim Kardashian: An object of images

This 3D model was created from a Processing code that analyzed the frequency of an ambient field recording I took, and turned its frequencies into plot points on a 3D grid. The goal was to make a physical texture out of an ambient sound.

Los Angeles

As a symbol in society, Kim Kardashian almost exists as an image of herself. This 3D representation of her was made from inputting 50 internet photos of her into a Photogrammetry software and printing the resulting mesh.

Grid Series

This sculpture is made with layered plexiglass with maps of all the houses in Los Angeles I've lived in etched onto them. Behind the layers is a book, Less Than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis that perfectly captures the sense of endearing emptiness that beautifully haunts LA. 

The 'Grid Series' consists of two pieces: a digitally printed fabric and a sculpture of a box. The 'grid' represents to me the embodiment of the male gaze and its function to restrict women. The garment is designed with a grid and drawings of women in guarded and submissive positions. The male gaze has placed women in this role of the oppressed and their body language shows it. The figures are bleeding through the grid as opposed to being restricted to it as a form of subversion. The box is a much more violent portrayal of the subversion of this grid, where the purpose is to destroy it.