MODEL MAKING
From the Graduate School of Design
Performed March 2024 at Theatre@First in Somerville, MA.
My first foray into prop design was for this offbeat comedy, where I was able to make a wide range of ridiculous items. I created the following props over the course of a week using mostly scavenged materials.
Contemporary arts center model
A foamcore architectural model with removable panels and scaled works of art. Created for Adjaye Associates in 2015.
W.A.R. laboratory model
Plexiglass and wire mesh model created for a graduate architecture studio.
Model in progress
Final model photos
Misc. models
A few more models I made in graduate school
Mastodon jaw bone
A life-size mastodon mandible for the paleontologists to ogle.
Projected image for tracing the base shape.
Building out the 3D shape with aluminum foil.
Air-dry clay doing its air-dry thing.
The final product
A special little remedy
A giant syringe (that’s not actually sharp) filled with a menacing goo (that definitely won’t leak).
After experimenting with a few different concoctions I went with shampoo, acrylic paint, and crushed shimmery eyeshadow. I sealed the syringe with tacky glue and jerry rigged a drying station.
I made the faux-metal needle by painting a thin piece of flexible plastic. The syringe was thrown across the stage multiple times with zero leakage.
Articles and files and conspiracy walls, oh my!
The play called for a number of newspaper articles, top secret files, and remnants of a “serial killer wall.”
Instead of using placeholder text, I used ChatGPT to generate article titles and content. I used Adobe Firefly to generate accompanying images.
Articles mocked up in Illustrator, with added realism thanks to AI. The pages were printed onto newsprint paper and then cut and reassembled for the files and conspiracy wall remnants below.
PROP WORK
Brainwash
Performed March 2024 at Theatre@First in Somerville, MA.
My first foray into prop design was for this offbeat comedy, where I was able to make a wide range of ridiculous items. I created the following props over the course of a week using mostly scavenged materials.