For this piece I played with the idea of destruction as the opposite of progress. One could argue that I have destroyed a blank piece of paper by crumpling it into a ball. From the opposite of perspective, the blank piece of paper has progressed from a two dimensional surface to a three dimensional form. The folds in the crumpled paper are unintentional, influenced only by the form of my hands and the pressure exerted. This makes this crumpled ball unique to the mold of my palms and fingers.

Although seemingly ‘cute’ or ‘kitch’ at a first glance, this piece was geared towards a more morbid concept: death as an alternative meaning for the word, “sleep”. More specifically, it explores the role of food as a method of processing death for the sake of human indulgences. But what I found most interesting about food–such as the Japanese sushi dishes–was how a medley of dead animals can be neatly arranged in an almost ‘natural’ fashion on a plate – regardless of whether they were actually from the same hemisphere, or the same cubic kilometer of ocean. This unification of the different species in their final stage of rest is what makes them ‘strange bedfellows’ indeed.

Our assignment was to create, out of origami, an object that represents ‘progress’. I have always been fascinated by nature’s ability to form geometry shapes out of atoms to molecules, an interesting example of this would be the bucky ball.

I chose to create the geodesic sphere origami using the laser cutter. To me, the sphere in many aspects represents progress because of its constant repeating faces, the more faces the object encompassed the more sphere it becomes. However the object also holds elements of failure, because although the more faces the object has the more sphere-like it will become, it will never become a sphere, which has only one face.

My intention with the black ink brush marks was to convey (through the linear marks) a sense of “organized” life and artificiality. The sides of the triangle (taped together) are abstract ink renderings of flesh or body parts. The goal was to Question the progress of artificial intelligence, and it’s relation to the human narrative. Is flesh, or “organic” material superior to “Artificial?” Does a robot think in 4 dimensions, does a human think in 3?”Clearly this small assignment does not do the idea justice. However this was where my head was at the time.