New Models Codex Y2K20
An article titled '#The-New-Aesthetic: Objects in Mirror are Much Closer than They Appear', reading James Bridle's term of the technological uncanny into the strange photography of lockdowns and security in 2020. I contributed this piece to a retrospective on 2020 ↗, the year we were trapped inside.
Related Projects
Tales From The Incoherence Era
A small zine of collected writings and graphics. As the primary creator and editor, I contributed a significant portion of the content and handled the final assembly, including a custom embossed cover on recycled paperstock.
Will Arnold
A collaborative two-color risograph zine produced during a seminar with professor David Lyle Hays. As a participating student, I produced the masked image on the left (David Hays, right). The text in my image was contributed by architecture PhD student Soumya Dasgupta. The zine was printed by Will Arnold, a lead print technician at UIUC and prolific zine maker.
Guccibytes
An exhibition and print zine showcasing unfinished speculative pieces from our studio organization, Quipit, with a focus on revealing the often-unseen digital components of our work. The zine was printed on long scrolls wrapped around PVC lattices, with embedded QR codes linking to AR content in Wikar. Each contributor used the platform differently: some created virtual galleries, others showed complex models on virtual plinths, and I created a "3D portal" to show one of my miniature models staged in its fictional setting. The physical exhibition components were built from materials recycled from a previous project.
Illusive
A limited-edition series of block prints and embossed graphics displaying optical illusions and intense patterns. I created this series myself, developing an experimental pipeline that used 3D-printed embossing plates to achieve deep, tactile imprints on the cards.