Poetics of Matter, 2025
Acrylic brush pens, paper
Acrylic brush pens, paper
Poetics of Matter Showcase at The New School
The aim of this semester long course, taught by Harpreet Sareen at Parsons, was to “engage in weekly hands-on experiments to explore unique physical phenomena, complemented by generative pencil-based sketching... [shifting] the focus from technology-led design to design-led technology,” to “investigate how understanding novel physical processes can serve as both a medium for creative expression and an inspiration for new forms of computing that transcend conventional digital logic.”
With topics ranging from bubbles to resonance, from sound to afterimages, this class engaged with the notion that there is no invisible matter, only matter that is waiting to be uncovered. This concept awakaned my desire to further investigate the human senses, to expand upon that which we take for granted in daily life. Discovering the mechanisms by which we can manipulate our own perceptions in order to look at common phenomena in a unique way allowed me to at once understand that there is nothing ordinary in the existence we embody.
Here you can look through the entirety of my accordion book, which is a compilation of ideation and sketches that examine different weekly topics, not only containing active explorations of these topics--like examining how beads atop a speaker vibrate and thus “come alive”-- but also thought experiments that exist between possibility and impossibility, like imagining a city built around the rounded and negative space structure of bubbles rather than the rigidity of angles.
Here is some writing done for the class, a reflection based in part on Laura Tripaldi’s Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials, which engages with the potential of unconventional materials to shift cultural perceptions.
With topics ranging from bubbles to resonance, from sound to afterimages, this class engaged with the notion that there is no invisible matter, only matter that is waiting to be uncovered. This concept awakaned my desire to further investigate the human senses, to expand upon that which we take for granted in daily life. Discovering the mechanisms by which we can manipulate our own perceptions in order to look at common phenomena in a unique way allowed me to at once understand that there is nothing ordinary in the existence we embody.
Here you can look through the entirety of my accordion book, which is a compilation of ideation and sketches that examine different weekly topics, not only containing active explorations of these topics--like examining how beads atop a speaker vibrate and thus “come alive”-- but also thought experiments that exist between possibility and impossibility, like imagining a city built around the rounded and negative space structure of bubbles rather than the rigidity of angles.
Here is some writing done for the class, a reflection based in part on Laura Tripaldi’s Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials, which engages with the potential of unconventional materials to shift cultural perceptions.