*not a joinery project
2025
Douglas fir, gouache, pencil
Looking at joinery not for its connection or craftsmanship, but for its formal quality seperate from its other half. Having the physical object as proof of the material understanding, and drawings as the ability to imagine and propose the possibility of the form.
The proposals come in the form of paintings and drawings. My attempting to keep my fine art practice as close to my design practice as possible.
*creating prototypes as proof of the thesis that joinery should be looked at for its singular form
*making sure that drawings are integral to the process, pushing the form finding through physical acts in the woodshop and with paint and paintbrush
*so often in design school forms are compared to famous objects, moodboards are created and objects are referenced - now I am gonna start drawing my objects next to famous objects
*comparison of this “joinery” form to architectural forms
*one day I walked into the studio space and someone’s jacket was hanging on the object, I see this as a proof towards the idea of looking at joinery forms as much more than just a connection point
*i see joinery’s connection point like a face, the identifier and signifier or a person or object