Jamón Carving Stand

In mid-February, I traded a good friend of mine an empty parking space at my home in Barcelona for a leg of Jamón Iberico Bellota Pata Negra. Of course, this meant that I needed a carving stand in order to properly enjoy this glorious pillar of food porn.

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WeWork Creator Awards 2018 Application Video: DANKOMADE

I compiled a 90-second video about DANKOMADE as part of a 2018 WeWork Creator Awards application.

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The Bar Cart

This simple structure has since become a revered addition to our living room, and gladly accepts, stores and dispenses almost all of our household hooch.

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The Berlin Wall Costume

A symbol of both oppression and freedom, The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, unifying East and West Berlin. Monuments and memorials draw hundreds of thousands each year to view the remains of this solemn reminder, whose message has become even more important as the Western political atmosphere echoes it's affects. Clever Halloween costume satire was, thus, inevitable.

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The Monster Easel

One day in May, I decided that I should resume painting. I visited some art shops in Berlin; it seemed to me that all of the models I found were either too flimsy or lacked panache. Thus, I took reference photos and began to plan and construct my own extra large, customized, rolling, adjustable, stable art easel.

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CUSTOM RECLAIMED PIPE & BOARD WARDROBE

'Reclaimed,' 'found,' 'repurposed,' 'recycled,' 'salvaged' or just plain 'stolen,' some of my favourite furnishings have been made with shit I've either found or lifted from various places. It was this scavenger craftsman impulse that lead me to imagine and eventually construct a customized pipe and board open wardrobe.

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SCHIFFER

Earlier this year, I bought a new bicycle from a man in Kreuzberg over E-bay Kleinanzeigen here in Berlin. A beaten up old men's three-speed German Veteran model, the black frame remained solid, and the 28" diameter wheels and elevated seat suited my own dimensions. It was dirty, dented, and it rattled, but I knew we'd get along.

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Lycanthrope & Jackalope Costumes

This year, after considering various concepts and ideas, Cor and I decided to go as Mythological Taxidermy: Cor as the beloved Jackalope (a jack rabbit with antlers), and me as a Lycanthrope (a shapeshifter; in this case, a sort of werewolf-troll-ogre-man-thing).

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BUST OF CHOW

Chow was good enough to allow me to occupy his loft studio earlier this year in an attempt to sculpt his likeness as a 3/4 size bust. While he finished his latest series of oil paintings, I spent two days teaching myself how to work with clay.