Meghan Timmons

Architecture major, Environmental Sciences minor

I work with drawing, graphics, 3D modeling, and mixed media in the disciplines of architecture and art. My work offers ideations of and improvements to environments that are nourishing for people, particularly as this applies to public and common spaces. I practice methods of image-making to observe, record, and reflect upon relationships between built environments, time, gathering, and movement, which I use to inform my design work.

When designing, my priorities lie in facilitating (1) physical and mental wellbeing, (2) socialization and connection, (3) feelings of safety, comfort, and welcomeness, and (4) equity and accessibility, all in relation to the use, experience, and functioning of spaces. Acknowledging and understanding the emotions, perspectives, and complex lives of people as they inhabit and move through environments is central to my work.

8 Months in 24 Hours

digital

Jewett Hallway Galleries

looking down a dark hallway-like space to a pedestal with projector on it; beyond that is hanging screen with projected collage-like image of many disembodied mouths

8 Months in 24 Hours questions how time is measured, categorized, and represented. Fixating on the photographic image as the timestamped record of a moment, I organized photos that I have captured of my roommates and myself as we've gathered in our shared living spaces over the past eight months, arranging them by chronological order of a 24-hour period.

By condensing this months-long timeframe into a single day, I investigate the folding of time into routine, breaking down an accumulation of moments and considering their individual importance as components of a whole timeline. Interested in representing the interactions, activities, and emotions that occur over the course of a day, I chose to focus on mouths in their ability to signify this information, as well as for their universality. Additionally, the mouth possesses a particular contemporary relevance as a bodily object that, for many in the past year, is only exposed and seen in the home, in the presence of trusted company, or in perception of safe and intimate circumstances. In this space, the mouth can only be viewed as a digital entity, as its physical exposure is not permitted.

cut-out photographic image of flowers in vases, with mouths viewed through them, on a white background

moving gif of various cut-out mouths in different gestures, occasionally with hands or branches, on a white background

person with short dark hair and dark clothing seen from behind as they stand and look down a hallway to a hanging screen with projection on it of collaged grouping of disembodied mouths on a white background

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