Form Studio is s a single semester-long project which develops in complexity and challenge as students progress. The class encourages students to explore combinations of tools and media, creating a sensitivity to how process and results shift between, for example, 2D and 3D, or drawing and photography. Though the class is not theory-focused, it serves as a foundation for future critical practice as it forces students to question and develop the way they judge their work.

On the first day of class, students arbitrarily assigned simple tools or materials to explore. I received wre a hot glue gun and a geometry stencil. Through my early experiments, I developed a conceptual focus of “dismantling and reconstruction.”

Eventually, I made letter-sized Avery label paper my primary format/tool. The process I created  starts with building larger elements, like a grid of circles or a single large triangle on an Illustration canvas. I would then print the elements onto the label paper and systematically swap stickers between sheets, building new images with the fractured components.

I find the results of my experiments to be very dazzling. The way the images are cut and rejoined allows viewers to perceive multiple systems and structures working together and against each other.