Creative Practice
Bloom’s Embrace:
A Wetlands Journey
Bloom’s Embrace is a site-responsive installation composed of six duck-cloth panels placed within the wetland at Oakwoods Nature Preserve. Installed across two seasonal cycles, the panels recorded water, sediment, vegetation, weather, and other conditions over time. The resulting surfaces serve as material records of the site and are being developed for a future indoor installation.
Type Environmental Installation
Location Findlay, Ohio
Years 2024–ongoing
Role Artist/ Designer
Collaborator Dr. Bob Midden
Fabrication + Installation Travis Chapin
Fabrication Tim Cozzens
Installation 1, October 2024
Extraction Detail (Installation 1), March 2025
Extraction Detail (Installation 1), March 2025
Installation 1, October 2024
Installation 1, October 2024
Installation 2, June 2025
Detail: Material Research + Prototype Development
Suspended dried panel from installation 1
Suspended dried panel from installation 1
Coach House
Archives
Coach House Archives is the ongoing renovation and documentation of a 129-year-old Chicago coach house. The project retains original hardware, found finishes, salvaged doors, reclaimed marble, and other evidence of the building’s history while introducing changes to light, circulation, storage, and daily occupation.
Conceived as both a residence and a material archive, the work records incremental decisions, discoveries, repairs, and adaptations over time.
Type Adaptive reuse + research
Location Chicago, Illinois
Years 2022–ongoing
Role Designer
Living/ Music Room, 2025
Hand painted subfloor uncovered during demolition, 2025
2025- Plan in Occupation
Light and Shadow
Structure
Material and Threshold
Teaching and Public Programs
Permission To… Permission Too.
Permission To… Permission Too. was an exhibition and public program developed in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial and presented at Columbia College Chicago. Co-curated and designed with Rene King, the project brought together student proposals addressing housing, migration, ecology, material culture, and civic participation. The storefront installation served as a setting for exhibition, discussion, and public programming.
Type Exhibition + Public Programming
Location Columbia College Chicago
Years 2025-2026
Role Co-Curator + designer
Collaborator Rene King
