“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart.”
Brian Eno, “A Year With Swollen Appendices”
Leaning on the above quote by Brian Eno as a guiding cornerstone, Surface finds an appreciation for misalignment in chromolighography.
This window blind was designed specifically for the window in my first New York apartment. The window made the six by seven foot room liveable, so designing an object specifially for it felt necessary. The blinds themselves use layered geometric shapes and bold, overlapping hues to evoke the downfalls of the analog richness of 19th century printmaking. Casting dynamic shadows and shifting tones throughout the day.
Surface
2025
54.25” x 35” x 2.25”
Maple wood, maple wood veneer
*original prototypes for blind mechanism- trying to allow for the ability to adjust pattern of blinds, with the user having a real physical connection to the movement itself (similar to the very physical activity of lining up the layers of a screen print)
