Hawthorn: A Constructed Biography
Assembled from found objects, photographs and writings, Hawthorn creates a fictitious biographical sketch through the curation and display of objects in an archive-like enclosure.
Collector
The human tendency to collect objects of no immediate value other than their aesthetic nature often begins for us as children, gathering stones and shiny objects to which we apply arbitrary value. Collector builds on this through the application of a glass topped shadow box and stand to impart a sense of preservation to the enclosed quartz crystal. The hand colored paper-drypoint engraved accordion book below depicts cartoonish crystalline forms as an imaginary map for the stone above.
Agatha’s Time in Architecture School, While Brief, Was Very Productive
“Agatha” is a character study in the form of a self-contained “library” of curated objects. Part writing, part modified book, part woodworking, the piece is a visual interpretation of memory as chaos contained within fabricated structures.
Road Atlas
Road Atlas explores the ways in which places are mentally mapped in the geography of memory. Printed using paper drypoint intaglio, each print is accordion folded in a manner reminiscent of a road map and contained in a 4-inch by 4-inch folio in which a handwritten memory that corresponds to one of the lines is placed.
Reliquary of Place
Created as a companion piece to “Agatha,” this piece focuses on the physical form that could be taken by a memory of a place. The pages are cut from a modified children’s atlas picture book, shuffled, and stitched together as a single-page signature coptic bound book. The resultant piece places the images in no real order, similar to how the recollection of a place does not necessarily follow a chronological path with the organic form of the binding creating a fragile-feeling structure which is difficult to hold and leaf through in the manner of a traditional book. Loosely referencing Jorge Luis Borges’ short story The Library of Babel, Reliquary of Place when removed from its case, most naturally wraps around to create a circular book.
