World building & Writing

⭐Recipient of the 2023 UCSD Speculative Fiction Award! 

Set in the distant future, readers follow Noah Ashford on a journey to uncover the truth of his own memories and the history of the generational spacecraft carrying what is left of humanity after discovering the clinic claiming to restore his mind may not be what it claims.

How do we define tourism and what does it mean to be a tourist? 

This project explores a possible venue of tourism between humans and a species of creatures called NanoFae who live inside a video game. In the brief moments of loading screens and pause menus, the world of game characters and players eclipse each other. Allowing both parties fragmented moments to glimpse into the reality of the opposite and therefore defining tourism as a window through which we view others and allow or refuse others to view us. 

The unique alphabet was created specifically for this project and the posters were made for a large print gallery display.

Created as a body of work based on weekly assignments for a visual arts course at UCSD, the Keplanova project explores a possible future where humans and extraterrestrials must define their relationships with one another, the planet they must all inhabit, and the governing bodies they all must answer to. 

Generations after a nuclear war threatened to wipe out an already volatile human population, new technologies have emerged to allow for humans to adapt to the changing environment. Explore their world through never before seen classified government documents, read at your own risk.

This work of fiction was created as a collaborative group project for a UCSD speculative design class. 

This research-based, speculative ecology project examines the possibility of partially transforming the Camp Pendleton Marine base into a protected ecological preservation & educational center. 

What would the future look like if it was designed by climate crisis driven nomadic life styles? 

This is the question that my senior project, Nomadica addresses. Set in California's future, this interactive exhibit places viewer into the daily life of a carpenter, inventor, and father living in a nomadic society of people who call the railroads home. Each object in the display has a corresponding journal entry that viewers were encouraged to read while viewing the exhibit. Created almost entirely out of repurposed materials, supplemented with 3D printed additions, my teammates and I aimed to create an authentic exhbit that truly places the viewer into Ethan's life.