Work

Competition. 2018. Speculative re-design of New York City’s Central Park.

Work completed during funded artist residency. 2021. I-Park Foundation. East Haddam, CT. Manually rendered digital drawing/painting completed in Procreate documenting flora and fauna local to the rural Connecticut landscape.

Interactive figure/ground composition app. Click image to load app. Double-click to create shape (or click grid icon for field of shapes). Scroll over or tap shapes to change figure. Hold ‘R’ while scrolling to rotate, hold ‘S’ and scroll to scale. Click and hold light… Read More »Configure/Ground

Random line generator. Double-blind contours consist of looking neither down (as in a blind contour) nor up while drawing a single suggestive line. The image below is a sampling of randomized lines from the generator app linked below (for desktop). A surprisingly wide qualitative range… Read More »Double-Blind Contours

Interactive agent drawing app based on contagion transmission. Click to protect or cure (blue), orange is carrier, red is sick, black is well and avoids red. Pause the simulation or click trace to retain paths. Created with P5.js. (Copyright © 2024, Grant Alford)

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of craft theory in relation to contemporary architecture. Craft is an old and familiar idea, but the line between craft and art or craft and mere manufacturing, for example, is notoriously hard to describe. In architecture, a similarly blurred… Read More »Craft Theory & Contemporary Architecture