Collection of Found Objects

Projects, Pictures, and Papers

  • An aspiring Civil Engineer tasked with “site design”; only heard “design”.

    An aspiring Civil Engineer tasked with “site design”; only heard “design”.

    I’m a big fan of holistic design processes, so when I was tasked with “civil site design” for my senior capstone project at IIT, I saw it as my last opportunity to be unrealistically creative before getting a job in the “real world”. Read more

  • The Lonely Painter

    The Lonely Painter

    Unable to fully investigate his childhood curiosities and forced into premature adulthood, Andrew would grow up to paint the only world he ever knew: the stark, cold, and lonely landscapes of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Read more

  • Keeping Mountain Time

    Keeping Mountain Time

    Looking to brighten my home with light, and my heart with a reminder of home, I set out to combine my technical skills and personal experiences into a singular artistic expression of form and function. Read more

  • Arts Table for Non-Profit

    Arts Table for Non-Profit

    Primary Objective: Design and construct a large work surface to be used in the “Arts & Textiles” area of a non-profit maker-space. Budgetary constraints necessitate the use of inexpensive materials. Secondary Objective: Gain familiarity with Fusion 360 for CAD and CAM and experience with CNC machining, while leveraging parametric design to minimize material waste. Method: Read more

  • Eulogy

    Eulogy

    On a beach long ago, I’m holding her hand with our toes in the surf. The image is hazy, overexposed, cracked along its edges like looking through a glass bottle found washed up along the beach. But I can feel the sun burning my pale shoulders and taste salt on my lips and feel her Read more

  • The Status of Unobservable Entities in Scientific Theory

    The Status of Unobservable Entities in Scientific Theory

    File Under: Philosophy of Science 1. Introduction We raise our children to think of science as test tubes and white lab coats and once they’re a bit older, we broaden that definition by teaching them about the scientific method. “Science”, we tell them, “is about making observations and forming hypotheses about those observations”. Of course, Read more