This object exists in a wonderful imagination where you see yourself picking flowers, fishing, harvesting various vegetables into the tote tray and moving them around and about. Away from the city, into the wilderness, from an apartment to an idyllic cottage, from garden to shed, from shed to kitchen, from kitchen to a dock, and dock to a boat, and from there wherever you want.

18.5” x 18.5” x 5”

A boulder was scanned through images with a mobile phone. The digital facsimilie recreates the form, color and texture of this imprecise object. This type of digital model is only enacted with a library of image and texture assets to create this projected realism. So, rather than recreating this digitized boulder as an object, the flattened image, a UV Map, that is automatically generated with the digital mesh is printed as a pattern for a square floor cushion. 

The garden stool or korean bath stool, brings to life an object from my memory: a little box that you sit on while using a shower hose at a Korean bathhouse with dad, or a tote stool my grandmother used while gardening. This petite stool is a representation of these two rituals that have disappeared, yet it remains a tangible reminder.

Render: tote is a wearable bag that allows the user to render the bag's skin according to their dressing style or surroundings. The kit comes with seven different textures, including grass, brick, concrete, leather, and various embroideries. Similar to the process of rendering an architecture scene, the user selects the desired texture map from the "library" and apply to the "object." The texture can be customized by printing images at the user's convenience (12.5" by 15"). So why buy seven different totes when you have one that does it all?

Slightbox is a backlit display frame for a single 35mm film slide.

A photon takes about eight minutes to reach the Earth from the surface of the Sun. Photons slice through the layers of film, leaving a latent image revealed later by the chemical development process. A slide captures a moment in time, a miniature vignette of a briefly illuminated world. Can we ever capture time, hold it in our hands? What do we reveal when we shine a light on the past? What memories are best left in darkness?