My first intention in designing this work was to create a piece of furniture that could also stand alone as art: a functional sculpture. Intended to be the first in a series of furniture pieces I endeavored to create over the course of a semester under the professorship of Thomas Müller, I chose to begin with what I had expected to be a fairly straightforward and simple construction project: shelving. This, however, turned into the most complicated and time-consuming project I had ever attempted. After pages of conceptual drawings and several class lectures missed as notes were replaced by sketches of shelves, I finally produced the blueprints for what was to become Polydromic Composition 14.

As soon as the plans had been put to paper, I began construction. With the help of a power jigsaw, rulers, clamps, Spoon, and Gorillaz, two 4’ by 8’ boards slowly developed into 14 stair-stepped pieces. From there, it was only a matter of assembling the structure. Finally, after three months and many long nights in LMU’s sculpture studio, Polydromic Composition 14 was finished.

A free-standing corner piece, the cloud shelf seamlessly blends an overall organic form with the pixel-esq stairsteps of the 14 individual pieces. The sum of the exaggeratedly mechanical parts equals an organic whole.

The latest Polydrome, constructed for the guys at Butter Vinyl! We think records deserve something more.

An exploration in form and function.

Yarn likeness.

All of my experiences can be attributed to a place. Therefore, I can be seen as a combination of places. As the world is made real through the lens of the mind, I have chosen to represent my own mind as a combination of the places I've been through the use of yarn extending from the world to create my head.






The above video is a slide-show that played inside of my yarn-head, meant to give the impression of life flashing before my eyes.

As a younger Jake, I spent spent time on Microsoft Paint, one of the worst drawing programs ever created. One thing I liked to do was create overlapping shapes and then fill each new shape created in the overlapping with an alternating color. I guess that's where I got the inspiration for these two pieces. These, however, were NOT created in Paint, but rather done by hand with black ink. It was an incredibly tedious process.

Squares Colliding Through Bubbles

Somewhere Horizon