How do we make sense of the seemingly clear divisions between the institutional and the popular, the collective and the person, the physical and the spiritual, the secular and the sacred?
A sculptural work that explores the interweaving of microbial and macroscopic worldings, "Polyzome" consists of a hand-blown glass ellipsoid containing a microbial polyculture native gathered from the New York City microbiome resting atop a white perforated clay tower, housing grasses.
"Everyone talks about the rain in the Puget Sound area in the Winter, but I don’t remember that many rainy days. Maybe when you are young and having a good time the weather doesn’t matter."
"The purpose of this timeline is to demonstrate this communication between fashion’s function and its aesthetic, and to allow visual interaction with how trends in the past century have developed and transcended societal boundaries."
An image can be considered a reflection of its viewer. What does this say about advertisements presented as images, as reflections of the people they are designed to reach?