Craft + Fabrication Endeavors
Visual Display Fabricator for Anthropologie at UTC
Many techniques went into transforming a concrete warehouse into a chic winter harvest celebration. The storefront window display featured a paper peacock perched atop a ten~ foot tall wreath. I hand carved and cut patterns into hundreds of tail feathers before painting, texturing, and attaching them. A team of eight spent the weekend before opening fabricating the entire store from ground up and building this meticulous wreath, with recycled cardboard, Styrofoam, wiring and more.
Upcycling the packing materials from the store’s new unboxing to create beautiful centerpieces, additional pieces hanging from the ceiling, and uniformly-themed holiday decor served a wonderful lesson in creative resourcefulness. I’ve carried these lessons with me throughout my time in Art Department positions, and enjoy finding creative solutions for set decoration and prop decor when the various restraints of a production arise.
Prop-Making Escapades
I think many working in the film industry resonate with the phrase “expect the unexpected.”
Forgive the Insane Compression for Squarespace’s GIF requirements
Fake fish guts fabrication.
Safely edible and rather good for your skin, this gel made from boiling seeds, plant roots, and hibiscus flowers looked nice and gruesome as our heroine knives and rips out the prop innards of a fish in this short film about surviving in the wilderness and finding strength within.
Funnel Fish Trap made with invasive Blackberries and Fern-rope (photo soon)
Experimenting with Stained Glass at Past Lives Makerspace
Started my Glass Art journey in a 6-week workshop in Spring 2023 and began learning more about the medium of stained glass, enamel fusing, lamp and window making. I’m still learning but also welcome stained glass commission requests (Updated Q4 2024), as it’s one of my new favorite medium.
I’ve completed 8 projects now, have begun learning how to kiln fire my own custom sheets, and am designing my first windowpane for some kitchen cabinet doors!
Textile Shenanigans
Canvas Needlepoint Tapestry
14-mesh with red and ivory cotton thread, 10”x14”
Unlike the tapestry, which— in my free time, stitch by stitch, took over seven months to create— the embroidery patch below was completed in less than 30 minutes with the Melco EMT, CNC Embroidery machine. As of summer 2023, I’m learning how to operate the machines and digitize designs into .DST, .ART8, or .EMB files.
My first CNC Embroidery Patch to learn how to digitize designs - Icon from the Disney movie Tangled
Woodworking Whimsy
Custom Two-Tiered Instrument Stand
If you haven’t heard from the rest of the website yet, I play a lot of instruments. I needed a place to put them all together as one happy family!
I built this instrument stand to be utilitarian and its purpose is indeed served. I consider it the Alpha model, and the beta is already in the works. I am indeed a novice but this project taught me a lot.
Eventually, I hope to build a collapsible, lightweight metal one of a similar style to have for live performances and touring.
Sculptural Shtuff
3-Hour Écorché Sculpture Assignment
Study of half skeletal and half muscular anatomy: Wood base, steel wire, aluminum foil, and oil clay
Christmas Ornament - Metal Wire and Bead Work - with 20 gauge wire and 6 different types of beads. All 10~ “flowers” spin in place!
16” x 10” x 10” wooden display: sculpted environment with Styrofoam, clay, resin, gathered sticks and moss, wire, and glue + acrylic paint
When re-watching Chuck is considered homework research
Barrel Roll! Sequential movement armatures
“Dip, dodge, and draw, lil roy!”
Assignment for sculpture anatomy, create five to ten, 8-10” tall armatures depicting a single sequential action, with 12 gauge aluminum wire.