Is catacorner.

The bringing together of two objects made at different times with different objectives to make one object revealing new possibilities, not only in terms of the actual form but more importantly the development of seeing and thinking through making. Formalizing of haphazardness.

Image is a graphic based on a newly made object.

Charming

Core with hand-turned wooden legs. Now comes the table top.

Paper to Steel

The making of a table, informed by the space and intended use. 

Core/pelvis of the table

Parts in paper

Attempting to figure out this project, from paper parts to...

The table's core, view from above.

BY MAKING...More than just a place to sit

What a wonderful year it was, just before settling into the holiday season spending time with family and friends my exhibition titled 'BY MAKING...More than just a place to sit' was held at Granderson Lab -a project by Alice Yard.

The show featured three projects I have developed over the last 2-3 years, Peera, Dishout and most recently Outin.

Peera

Outin- Moment for pleasure

Spurs- Table system designed for presenting Dishout

Spurs

Peera-Wooden and aluminium benches

Adam Cooper and Rachael Anne Thomas

Abigail Hadeed and Marlon Darbeau

Photography by Damian Libert & by Kibwe Brathwaite

Mt Irvine Jazz on the Beach 2012

These are some images from the making of the Mt Irvine Jazz on the beach spacial and set design for 2012.

 

Photography by Kibwe Brathwaite.

DISH OUT

Extensions of you...
For the act of serving yourself and or others.

This new work was shown in the Dominican Republic at
Design Caribbean, September 1-4, 2011.

Material- Stainless Steel and Mahogany.

Photography by Damian Libert.

Peera... more than a place to sit

Peera is a reinterpretation of the familiar.

You can sit on it, carry things in it... maybe tools,
drinks or whatever you desire.

This project further investigates the idea of convergence, the utilization of different modes of making.

It is a culmination of many moments where a Designer engages with an Architect to design and build...not a building but the architecture of a small object. Collaborating with Sean Leonard over the last year has brought up questions of multiplicity...the nature of Alice Yard forces one to consider improvisation and demands a thing to have many purposes (a series of simple metal chairs is used for seating today, tomorrow they are shelves for displaying items).

Ideas about rethinking and remaking the familiar, challenging the way we see ourselves and the things we have grown up with. Christopher Cozier has appropriated the peera bench in a series he titles "little gestures", while he sees it for its symbolic value, this object for me is a design investigation.

Peera,Christopher Cozier, Draconian Switch, Town, Alice Yard is part of the Global Africa Project currently on show at the Museum of Arts and Design NY.
November 17th 2010 - May 15th 2011

Photography by Damian Libert