Disco Objects

Disco Objects, 2020-present

Papier-mache, acrylic, Sculptamold, air-dry clay, and mirror tile

Disco Objects (unconventionally shaped objects with reflective finishes) emerged from my desire to control and beautify my limited environment at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when I was convalescing from spinal stenosis and reluctantly living with my parents again as an adult. They capture light and scatter it through the room, sometimes diffracting it, making any environment more tolerable and, at the right time of day, almost magical.

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Disco Objects (Compulsion), 2025

Modular origami and ‘disco objects’ (unconventionally shaped objects with reflective finishes) have long been two of my less serious creative hobbies.

Every winter since I was a child, I’ve found myself compulsively folding origami paper into Sonobe modules, making 12 to 120 of the same module to assemble into polyhedrons called kusudama.

Disco objects emerged from my desire to control and beautify my limited environment at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when I was convalescing from spinal stenosis and reluctantly living with my parents again as an adult.

For Compulsion, I brought modular origami and disco objects together into one entity. It should be the ultimate comfort object, but it seems a bit too sharp for that.

Compulsion appeared at Hunchback Gallery‘s “Reframe the Dark”.