A semester long project that resulted in an exhibition for the Winter semester Graphic Design Senior Studio class. In addition to our personal pieces for our senior design exhibition, all of us were a different moving part that worked to design, plan, promote, and host that same exhibition. My part was as lead of the wayfinding team. My team and I studied the exhibition space and considered where best to apply signage to assist visitors to move through the gallery, as well as call attention to changes in elevation in the floor (such as steps or ramps) for safety. We worked together as individuals and as teams to get this event off with minimal issues or assistance from our instructor. Looking back, I don't believe we had any issues that were within anything we could control so I think that was a pretty good win.

Below is the exhibition description from one of our promotional posters.
"WSU Graphic Design Senior Studio presents Come Together, a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring notions of convergence in a world where ideas, people, matter, and technologies constantly meet, merge, and mutate through the prism of socail and natural forces, manifesting in a contested reality while pushing towards an imaginative future."

All of our pieces were focused around the concept of convergence, and it was taken in so many different directions. My piece was focused on the concept of liminal spaces, or the space you enter to travel to another space. Temporary spaces, such as roadside rest stops and laundromats. Places where it almost feels like the lines between relaties blur. My goal was to put into print a tangible representation of the concept of these liminal spaces, from my chosen content to the tactile feel of the materials I chose.

I photographed using instant film, scanned, and printed on metallic paper that gave an etherial color shift. I also distrubuted a survey to gather how people generally felt about liminal spaces, and those responses I distilled into short lines and printed on a translucent vellum to overlay over the instant film printed pages. These pages were hand bound with wire into a small book with a cover that feels of a sandy beach, another converging and liminal space. At the exhibition, the full piece also included a small sticky note pad and pen and viewers were encouraged to interact with the piece by handling the book and then contributing their own experiences with liminal spaces to the adjacent board on the wall. This piece was exhibited in 2 different shows: my Graphic Design Senior Exhibition at Wayne State University and then again at the Graphic Design Alumni Exhibition at Kellogg Community College.

My instant camera films