Andreas Shelton
Andreas is a student and designer devoutly interested in the visual lexicon of today’s culture. Their work seeks to reframe objects and ideas people are already familiar with while subverting the principles that make these everyday forms special. By exploring various mediums such as design, photography, and fine art practices, their work aims to remain accessible while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of its own material limitations.
Tact(f)ile
Some of the most powerful imagery available to designers is that which is most commonplace, drawing in the viewer with familiarity before subverting their expectations. In this project, an interrogated and abstracted material layer becomes the intermediary device for viewing three everyday objects in a new context. Here, items that are often perceived as overtly one dimensional take on a more malleable identity without being completely removed from their inherent functionality. The project aims to break these three icons of everyday existence free from the box within which they are normally found, offering them new life in this gallery space without completely disassembling them.
By crafting this newfound designed state to the everyday object, the viewer is capable of understanding the objects in front of them as a series of intentionally designed pieces, opposed to the byproduct of an otherwise unremarkable existence. The items at hand are both present, and simulacrum. They exist in the memories of everywhere they have ever been overlooked, and simultaneously carry a profound visual and physical weight here in this moment.