The kind of design I want to do is one that invokes a some conversation either internal or about the external, that is experimental, and that is personal. There are many designers I am inspired by; however, at the moment, I am interested and inspired by female artists that invoke powerful statements. In particular, Yoko Ono, Jenny Holzer, and Louise Bourgeois. I’m also interested in street photography with unique perspectives, invoking a feeling of absurdity or a range of human emotions such as Daniel Arnold, Fan Ho, and Annie Leibovitz’s personal photos. Other designers I am inspired by are poets, at the moment who particularly define my current feelings are Frank O’Hara (“The Day the Lady Died,” “To the Harbormaster,” and “Having a Coke With You”) and T. S. Elliot’s Preludes.
I want to make things because I want to invoke experience — an experience of human emotion that may be an imitation of what we have felt, a feeling of inspiration, a feeling of beauty, or an invitation to think. My medium would be anything that I think best achieves this experience I want to invoke whether it is through sculpting, written pieces, conceptual pieces, digital graphics, or paintings. I don’t think I would design for particularly anyone as what my design practice for work I aspire to do is relatively personal. The impact I want to make through my work is either to start a conversation, ways to explore emotion, or therapeutic. Ultimately, my goal as a designer is to create an experience or thought that I know and convey it into the best way I think I can present it into a reality.