TWERK SPECIMEN

What if type could twerk?

Typeface & Processing
Self-initiated
Barcelona
2020

What if a type specimen could move instead of sitting still on a page?

Twerk Specimen explores an alternative way of presenting a typeface by replacing the traditional static specimen with movement. Built in Processing, video and typography are linked together so that the type responds through motion, turning the specimen itself into a performance.

A specimen that performs the type instead of displaying it.

PIDU

Growing a poster for a forest party

Mushroom, Natural Pigment & Mesh Printing
QOQOQO SUMMER SCHOOL
Lahemaa National Park, Estonia
2021

What if a poster could be grown? Exploring mushrooms as a graphic medium.

PIDU is a material experiment developed during a rural typography workshop in Estonia. Mushrooms were ground, dyed and applied through mesh to create different shapes and letterforms.

The process eventually became PIDU — Estonian for “party” — a typographic experiment created for the workshop’s closing celebration.

SKULPTUR PROJEKTE

When does something become a sculpture?

Field Research & Visual Archive
Skulptur Projekte Münster
Münster
2017

Looking at the city as an exhibition space.

Skulptur Projekte Münster takes place once every ten years, placing newly commissioned works throughout the city rather than inside a conventional exhibition space. Visiting the 2017 edition became an exercise in observing, photographing and collecting ideas that challenged what I understood sculpture to be.

A research trip for finding better questions rather than fixed answers.

ANALOG FILTER

Making digital filters without digital tools

Optics, Photography & Physical Filters
QOQOQO SUMMER SCHOOL
Lahemaa National Park, Estonia
2019

What happens when an effect associated with digital image-making is reconstructed using only physical means?

Analog Filter explores image manipulation through optics, photography and handmade filters. Instead of altering the image after it is captured, different materials are placed between the camera and its subject, allowing distortion, reflection and interference to happen directly in front of the lens.

I’M POINTING AT YOU

How to disappear in plain sight

Research on Surveillance Systems
Thesis
Barcelona
2017

How do you disappear when being seen has become the default?

I’m Pointing at You investigates surveillance systems and the visual mechanisms through which bodies are detected, identified and observed. The project explores strategies for becoming visible and invisible within systems designed to continuously look back at us.

LOST IN TRANSLATION

Passing an image from machine to machine

Scanning, Fax & Machine Knitting
Self-initiated
Barcelona
2020

What survives when an image keeps being translated?

An architectural image is scanned, transmitted by fax and finally translated into knit. Each process leaves its own trace: distortion, interference and loss become part of the image rather than errors to be corrected.

WOW

A souvenir from getting lost

Notes, Zine & Graphic Objects
Codes & Display
PBSA School of Arts
Amsterdam, The Hague
2018

A visual record of a week spent drifting through museums, architecture, exhibitions and everything encountered in between.

Developed during Codes & Display at PBSA in the Netherlands, WOW brings together the images, notes and visual fragments collected along a series of dérives. The material was reorganised into a zine and a set of graphic objects that work somewhere between documentation and souvenir.

Not a guide to the journey, but something brought back from it.

VIERTEL FAHNEN

What does a district look like as a flag?

Data & Processing
PBSA School of Arts
Düsseldorf
2018

Same system. Different data. Generative outcome.

Viertel Fahnen is a generative experiment that translates demographic data from Düsseldorf’s neighbourhoods into visual patterns. Built in Processing, the same set of rules produces a different flag for each neighbourhood according to its demographic composition.

THE OBSERVER

Watching the watchers

Light & Camera
Self-initiated
Barcelona
2019

A surveillance camera appears to observe the space around it. But what happens when the direction of surveillance is reversed?

The Observer is an installation that turns the act of watching back onto itself. What initially appears to be the observer gradually becomes the observed, shifting the relationship between camera, space and viewer.

SCHMUCK

Before making, collecting

Visual Research & Personal Archive
Self-initiated
Düsseldorf
2017

Collecting as a way of thinking.

An ongoing archive of images collected from books on conceptual and artistic jewellery. Photographing, collecting and organising these references became a way of training my eye before making — a starting point for finding unexpected connections and asking different questions.