Phoebe’s Rock Index
Phoebe’s Rock Index / 2024
Final Thesis Installation and Print Book
︎ For my thesis, I’ve designed an animated rock index that aims to elevate the “flaws” and eccentricities we all have. It’s meant to be a humorous juxtaposition, having regular everyday rocks in a formal, museum-like space for reverence. I’ve printed a tangible, non-animated book and projected the animated rock meshes onto the walls of my exhibition space to create an immersive, dark, museum-like environment. My project’s goal is to appreciate these traits’ two-toned nature and their benefits to our creative practices.
The project incorporates scanned 3D models of real-life rocks that have been brought to digital-life through photogrammetry. The concept is because I’m appreciating flaws, they are represented as imperfect rocks versus precious stones that you’d ordinarily see in a museum. I chose rocks because they’re often overlooked in our everyday life, like these flaws. I reinforce that playful, humorous tone by parodying scientific texts or diagrams in my page designs. I employ a grid-like structure and strategies scientific books use to denote information and parody it with the content being people’s flaws. Because I’m elevating these undervalued, two-toned traits that exist in all of us. People can experience the rocks through physical index pages with larger than life rocks on the walls. With the rocks turning slowly, as if in a museum.
