11 ยท Experiments

Experimental media

Websites, installations, models, photography and video: the other ways I’ve told the stories behind my projects.

Websites

Fictional places with real websites

Screenshot of the fictional Forty-Two Tower website, with an application form for apartments in the tower
The Forty-Two Tower's website

This site carried on the narrative of my thesis. The fictional 42 tower uses it to promote the apartments in the tower, the amenities, the team involved in designing it and the job opportunities available.

The Forty-Two Tower

Screenshot of a satirical website for the Republic of Eagle Canyon, styled after the golf estate's own site
The Republic of Eagle Canyon's website

This one is a portal into the country of Eagle Canyon. It was inspired by the Eagle Canyon golf and lifestyle estate in Roodepoort: 3 000 hectares and more than 800 houses, with its own golf course, gym, restaurants, clubhouses and tennis courts. Eagle Canyon is an example of how many people with means choose to build and consume architecture.

The Republic of Eagle Canyon

Installation

Propaganda, stencils and concrete

In this series, propaganda is the tool that builds the narrative of a landscape: one that promotes capitalism as a necessity, the need for relentless production and consumption, and the large labour forces that support them. Stencils, layered spray paint and architectural drawings start to talk about the relationship between architecture, capitalism and its critique. The passports are for a Hybrid Region, and carry the emblems of more than one country on their covers.

Photography and video

Light, film and editing

Six long-exposure photographs of a dancer tracing swirls of light in the dark
Light painting
A sheet of film photographs of a Chinatown: shopfronts, a red and gold archway and street scenes
Chinatown, on film
Stills from a video: luxury goods, a cityscape at night and people in a factory, cut together
Video stills
Stills from a video: a hotel lobby, a person holding a sneaker, a yellow uniform
Video stills

Three of my edited videos are on Vimeo: one, two and three.

Contact

Have a project, or a place on your team?

Email is the quickest way to reach me, and my CV is on this site in full.