MODEL MAKING / BUILDING /
MODEL MAKING / BUILDING /
El Columpio
My grandfather’s house had this swing outside I would often sit at with my family members. This swing is an integral part of my childhood and ultimately inspired me to make my own apartment swing.
Flatbush Shade Structure
Areas in Little Caribbean, BK suffer from high urban heat vulnerability. The form was inspired by the historic old growth oak and hickory forest that used to be on this land before Dutch agricultural systems. The bead work is an ode to the various immigrant cultures of the inhabitants of the land: various Caribbean, West African, and Lenape cultures.
Community members place “beads” on the trees and take them off on the colder months of the winter. The beaded structure would provide not only shade, but a community connection to ritual.
Willets Point, 2003 blackout Model
At 4:11 on August 14, 2003, New York City lost power for 29 hours. This model is both a timeline and topographical model of Willets Point and Flushing Meadows Corona Park on that day. The model describes different systems thatfailed that day.
She of the Jade Skirt
A sculpture and installation drawing on Aztec deity Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of rivers and lakes, as a lens for reimagining our connections to water, femininity, and relationship as ritual.
