3d modelling has been a part of my practice since 2023, after taking a Virtual Reality course at
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. this soft introduction to Unity & Blender sparked
my love for the medium, && since then i have been studying & practicing 3D. my background in web design
& coding combined with my newfound love for modelling developed into an interest for game developmemt.
after taking courses such as Experimental 3D - focused on Maya, Art Games & Experimental
Game Lab - both focused on scripting using C# via VSCode, as well as creative asset creation & usage.
some softwares i am comfortable using for 3D include Maya, Blender, Womp, Unity, LumaAI & VSCode.
a lot of my first projects were focused on modelling objects that i had around the house. experimentation is an
important part of my process, && trying out new softwares
is a great way to learn while having fun & creating pieces i couldn't have imaginged before actually making them.
when developing video games, i like to build my assets myself to have more control - both aesthetically & structurally.
i often shade my objects within Unity in order to acheieve the effect i want.
trinket.obj & rando3d
encapsulate the themes i focus on in my earlier-to-recent projects: the value in and mechanisms of collection & archive. collecting phsycial objects expresses
care and love for an item. digitizing the object is an act of preservation, resistance, and curiosity. to digitize
(model) is to insist that an object holds meaning. collecting can be archival, nostalgic, obsessive, and speculative, but at its core,
it is about recognizing value in the things i choose to surround myself with.
within digital spaces, collecting becomes
a form of authorship; gathering, arranging, and recontextualizing not just to store, but to tell a story. modeling items that i no longer own
- beit they were lost, discarded or destroyed - questions what is remembered versus what is erased. giving these items new form exposes the seams between past and present,
physical and virtual. my practice is not about seamless restoration, but about honoring the strange poetry of what remains within my new and old items.
