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Colander Lamp

A table lamp with a colander for a shade (colampder?). Handmade from black walnut in a vague art deco style.

Reflexions vol. 27

The art and literature magazine for the Columbia University Medical Center, volume 27. The post-COVID reprisal edition.

See the online issue here.

Support the Bottom of the Pan

This is a book of photographs, each one reminding us to SUPPORT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAN, or to SUPPORT BOTTOM for short. The book is handmade in an edition of twenty-five. Use these images as a dataset to train your computer vision model, as a test for stereo vision, or as you would other art.

Sandy Sans

I made a font by drawing letters in the sand and tracing their outlines. It's not a great font, but it does the job (as long as the job only requires the 26 upper- and lower-case letters of the Latin alphabet). I spent way too long making it. Feel free to download and use it for all your papers, thank-you notes, or corporate slide decks.

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PORTRA-VISTA

A mockup for sunglasses made from medium format Portra 400 film.

Alternative Photo Processes

A series of experiments with historic photographic processes including cyanotype, salted paper, and albumen prints.

Helios Lens Restoration


I cracked open the Helios 44-M that came with the Zenit TTL. It was highly crusty, so I tore it down to components for a good cleaning. This was easily doable with a lens spanner and not many more oddball tools.

Animated display of all parts of the lens
< Helios Heartbeat

Iris Wink >
Animation of blades of lens iris opening and closing
^ Tools, knolled ^

Zenit TTL Teardown

Parts layout of (almost) completely disassembled Zenit TTL Olympic Edition SLR camera.
On-the-fly “unexploded-view” drawings of various views of the TTL. Line drawings made in Photoshop, notes and annotations made by hand during the process of disassembly. Now serve as indexing method for storage in the disassembled state.

Modular Synthesizer

VCO layout on breadboard, with AS3340 oscillator TL072 op-amp
3-oscillator VCO module
a passive 5-in, 1-out mixer
16-step sequencer with two chained 4017 decade counters

Image Exchange

A dispenser for 120 film reels, or reels comparably sized.
Made in Spring 2019, Princeton, NJ.
The Image/Object Exchange
Plywood, welded steel, performance