Solo Capstone Exhibition

For this project, we were asked what a personal manifesto of ours was; there was no rules or guidelines simply for the fact to see how we can express our creativity. We were given the creative freedom to expand upon anything that we found important, or wanted to further our knowledge upon as something that is important to us and our daily lives. For me, that is people & connections.

I chose to do a study on the similarity of human experiences. Each person is different, and what they consider necessities may differ, but we are more alike than we actually realize. Values as humans have progressed through time, and values of possessions have changed as we grow older. The concept of growing old is full circle, and there are things that older and younger generations may uniformly agree on as something they need to have with them in order to go through everyday life.

To execute this, I challenged myself to use things that I was not necessarily familiar with in the design space. I used a variety of different mediums and processes such as vinyl, wood cutting, and vacuum forming. For an interactive concept, viewers were able to lift the pieces of wood to reveal the age of the person who’s items were being displayed. Many people got these ages wrong, and it goes to show that we are very similar in many ways, regardless of age.