degree project “test object(s)”/ environment from fall 2025 studio final critique
veil i
︎plaster, plywood, graphite
veil ii: muleta
︎inkjet print on velum, paper medical tape
veil iii: vel
︎latex, reflective glass beads, glass, TrafficMaster laminate flooring, plastic, found sign-back (steel), pallet wood, pine 2x4
This series of sign-paintings, drawing inspiration from moments of unexpected beauty glimpsed in our built environment, demonstrate the coming-into-being of a subject in their reverence to what is hidden, unrepresented or unknown. Unsettling western philosophical conventions of rational being, these “veils” – in turn decommissioned road signage, performative referents of violent spectacle – effect varying opacities in their obstruction of anticipated signifiers, holding space for a real which resists symbolization. As if an image on a screen, near-total abstraction reveals a surface onto which desire might be mapped, locating liberatory potential in a fundamental lack.
veil i
︎plaster, plywood, graphite
veil ii: muleta
︎inkjet print on velum, paper medical tape
veil iii: vel
︎latex, reflective glass beads, glass, TrafficMaster laminate flooring, plastic, found sign-back (steel), pallet wood, pine 2x4
This series of sign-paintings, drawing inspiration from moments of unexpected beauty glimpsed in our built environment, demonstrate the coming-into-being of a subject in their reverence to what is hidden, unrepresented or unknown. Unsettling western philosophical conventions of rational being, these “veils” – in turn decommissioned road signage, performative referents of violent spectacle – effect varying opacities in their obstruction of anticipated signifiers, holding space for a real which resists symbolization. As if an image on a screen, near-total abstraction reveals a surface onto which desire might be mapped, locating liberatory potential in a fundamental lack.
veil i: alienation/mOther
veil ii: muleta
veil iii: vel
