This digital book is the culminating project of my four years
at the Rhode Island School of Design. It displays not only the physical and technical
skills that I have developed in the classroom, but also the ways in which I have
grown as a conscious creative thinker. The book contains summaries and
fragments of my projects and writings dated between September 2019 and May
2020. However, the core of my motivations arose from an extensive academic
research project I conducted with Professor Andrew Robarts in the Autumn of
2019 entitled, “Defining American Food Culture: an analysis of how socially unjust
and environmentally unsustainable food systems in the United States result in
culinary culture loss.”
From the discoveries that I made about urban and rural food
deserts in the US, I began to develop the concept for Infinite-Mart. However,
due to the circumstances of the Spring of 2020 the project was cut short and
during the following months, in COVID-19 lockdown, I brought to fruition a
second project, Conscious Compost. Meanwhile, I worked on an adjacent film photography
project, Compost Portraits, the result of which is sprinkled throughout this
book. I believe that this book is the best culmination, thus far, of my personal
design process and methodology, one heavily rooted in academic research and response.
SELECT SPREADS
Pages 22-23
Pages 8-9
COVER MOCK UP
The cover in composed of a grocery store receipt overlaying the chosen blue color.