Lost & Found
Art Direction · Photography · Exhibition Design · Editorial
MFA Project
A visual exploration of loneliness and the changing value we place on objects in the city.
Beginning with photographs of discarded objects found on the streets of Brooklyn, I developed a visual system through sculpture, photography, graphic composition, poetry, and exhibition design. The resulting work was presented as an immersive gallery installation accompanied by a printed catalog.
I took photos of around 80 objects discarded on the streets of Brooklyn and categorized and analyzed what I’d found. I used the most basic form of these objects to create three-dimensional sculptures to recreate value for these discards. I used a photo studio to play with the light and shadow and to bring the sculptures back into a two-dimensional world.
I created compositions with the original photograph, a gritty filtered version of the original, the geometric form, and the sculptural photograph. The three elements exist in different places in each composition so as not to be too static.
I created a poetry booklet to imagine the dreams of the original found objects and illustrations to accompany the poems.
The poems can live on their own but also pair with each composition.
Additionally, I designed a gallery show to exhibit my compositions and the accompanying poetry, and a gallery catalog. I used SketchUp to illustrate my vision for the gallery. The gallery layout is meant to be maze-like to allow visitors to find each object, recalling the origins of the project.
