Tom Sachs NASA Chair
In 2012, Tom Sachs went to Mars. The other NASA was taking too long to do it, so he and his team of astronauts assembled enough simulacra to do it themselves. In that process, he made 494 Samsonite 2250 folding chairs, each custom painted and serialized with a unique cultural hero, for an audience to partake in the mission sequence. Then he sold all the chairs for a thousand bucks each. Well, the chairs sold out, and the stragglers on eBay are many thousands of bucks each. So in Tom Sachs spirit, I built my own. I didn’t have his studio’s precise shade of Krylon Industrial 2108 Banner (Safety Red), so I wrote out my own bar code and put it on what I did have. Now there’s 495 Tom Sachs NASA chairs. If Tom Sachs went to Mars by building a space program, I went to Tom Sach’s space program by building a chair from the beachers. I was there when Tom Sachs went to Mars.
Grand Tour
“It was important to me to reveal some salient characteristic of the architecture, perhaps its frontality, the layering of a spatial sequence, or simply the quality of a surface as it catches the light. I thought that if any one of my drawings were viewed as a travel scene, I had failed, since it would be merely picturesque.” -Michael Graves
“First to look, then to observe, and finally to discover. Once the impression has been recorded by the [pen], it stays for good, entered, registered, inscribed.” -Corb
“If you didn’t draw it, you didn’t see it.” -Marleen Davis
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Reframing Vogue
Using fragments of Vogue to generate a new story (about a voyeur who falls in love with the ringleader of a group of kids who only skateboard when it rains.)
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Digital Experimentation
“Open All Nite” is a fake cassette tape of a fake album for a fake band. The album cover art was used as an excuse to learn Blender. The oil rig and neon sign were both made in Blender, and I printed them out and put them into an old cassette casing. “Milk Crate Challenge Media Burn” is another dive into Blender, generating the modern equivalent of Ant Farm’s iconic “Media Burn” through the lens of today’s proliferation of viral content via TikTok. The Castostrater is an ad for a guitar that I have not followed through on (yet) in which the body and headstock shape of a Fender Stratocaster are switched. Could be a good project to learn woodworking with. Stay tuned.
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