Design & Photography
Land Art Pioneer
Michael Heizer
This was one of Michael Heizer's first land pieces. My fascination with Heizer’s theories lies in his use of the earth as a canvas for transformations of the earth's surface through human action. Form and scale are two compositional elements that tend to profoundly inspire me. Here Heizer has created a sort of synthesis that simultaneously arouses my feelings of awe and dread.
Title: Dogs in Car.
This building is titled The Sunny Hills, located in Tokyo and designed by architect Kengo Kuma. This building was built using an old traditional design method applied in Japanese wooden architecture called Jigoku-Gumi. This method is executed using vertical and cross pieces, or muntins, of the same width, which are intertwined to form a grid. The building is located amid a residential area and emits a soft and subtle atmospheric feel, providing a positive relationship with the street traffic, communicating a symbiotic relationship.
A view of the eastern wing of the Getty center.
This fountain, designed by Richard Meir, filters water downward to Robert Irwin's garden. Irwin’s garden is a full sensory experience, as the fountain and the subtle sounds of the fountain’s dripping water are engineered to raise awareness of the garden and its immense effect on the viewers’ senses as a whole.
Title: A Blue Home. I took this photo in Barrio Logan, San Diego, CA, January 2024. Barrio Logan’s proximity to the United States-Mexico border town of Tijuana makes it an important place for the movement of immigrants from one country to the next. Many houses in Barrio Logan are in need of repair, and the poverty that immigrants are escaping in their transition to the United States is visible everywhere. However, Barrio Logan is rich in cultural references, from the vibrant street murals to the thriving taco stands on the corners.
Known as Proust's favorite painting, Johannes Vermeer's 17th-century painting View of Delft might be the most famous Dutch cityscape. With the way that he describes memories and visions, I feel that Proust is a painter-like writer, and the essence of his appreciation for such a masterpiece brings me fascination and context as to what might have inspired him at the time.
Title: Kai and the Sun
I took this photo of my friends Krew and Kai after a day of skating.
Title: A Portrait of Nico Jones
Title: Untitled
Title: Nothing Here Now but the Recordings by William Burroughs. This is a vinyl record that I came across while in the Anti Public Library in Paris. Recorded in 1980 and released by Industrial Records in 1981, Burroughs collected tape cut-ups that are unfathomably influential and inventive. Composed of archival cut-ups made between the early '60s and late '70s, Nothing Here Now but the Recordings plays through a non-linear sequence of sawn-off phrases, both verbal and musical. These then create something altogether new and interesting in themselves. I enjoy this act of transforming random stimuli into something personal.
