Research

Warhol’s Dream is a critical study of Andy Warhol and Robert Smithson, two incredibly influential and successful artists of the sixties, through a fictional encounter of the two artists that never really occurred. Saul Anton, a Princeton doctoral candidate who has written for Parkett, Frieze and Artforum among other magazines, sought to write a novel [...]

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I had the opportunity today to go into the Parsons Archives and take a look at a notebook from 1906 by student Roy Fleming who attended the New York School of Art, soon to be The Chase School of Art and eventually Parsons School of Design.
He was a student in both Chase’s and Henri’s art [...]

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I started in on making some initial moves towards the design of pages that contain content. I think each book should have a brief introduction and some text to accompany it, I also want to include a master book that will outline my process, thesis statement and inspiration.

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So I’ve been working on laying out some basic design decisions so that I’ll be able to quickly design and build the rest of my series.

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After class last Tuesday I came to the conclusion that my process right now was working with two elements and needed a third. My books right now are the completion of two acts—one is the collection of materials within parsons at a given location, the second the compiling and cropping/presentation of my findings. My [...]

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At this point I feel like I’m in a good spot to start making some design decisions about how my books are going to look.
I’ve decided to name each book by the time, place and date where the content was compiled. Each title is a sentence where each part can be easily swapped [...]

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I thought I would post this article. I can’t find a version online so I’ll try to type it up verbatim here. It is probably better read on an actual sheet of paper but I think it is one of the best examples of my idea and I would like to use it [...]

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“I decided to begin my thesis with an exploration of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. In an attempt to distill their writings, my thesis fell upon the concept of the Mise en Abyme. A Mise en Abyme is self referentiality—translated literally as the effect that occurs when an object is reflected in two [...]

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The First 10 Minutes of the Film

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