Highland Support Project Website re-design, 2024

HSP Visual Rebrand

During my time at HSP one of my main creative tasks was to re-design the online and graphic presence for HSP from scratch. The concept going in was to express HSP’s professional identity as a non-profit, while creating a soothing and accessible user experience.

The final design language incorporates HSP’s values of transparency, wellness, eco-thinking & healing to create a cohesive visual identity and design system.

To see the full scope of this project, click here.

Tonya Ridings Website Design, 2024

This project was commissioned by therapist & healer Tonya Ridings as a way to organize her groups, trainings and classes for clients. Tonya wanted her website to express the joy, calm, and vibrancy she wields in her therapeutic practice.

Her flexibility in terms of style and aesthetic made this website wildly fun and unique, I’m really happy with how it turned out.

See the site here.

XRPL Ledger Series, 2021

For this project I worked with a small team of animators and motion designers at Belljar Productions to create an animated educational series for XRPL’s blockchain system.

I also collaborated closely with the design team at Ripple to conceptualize, design, and animate the entire series, ensuring it met client expectations and objectives.

See the full series here.

Designed visual branding and animated content to enhance clients online presence and engagement.

Ran network analytics to increase social media engagement and gallery sales.

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This past summer I led visitors in a group meditation which took the form of interactive video installation, ushering viewers from spring into summer as a way to ground themselves in the natural cycles of the Earth.

It was displayed along paintings, sculptures and photographs curated by myself and my close friend Lowe Fehn as part of our exhibition honoring the Summer Solstice - Dancing Orbit.

This piece was created as part of a 4 day exhibition during the Anderson Gallery’s Summer Space Grant in 2022. A last minute edition to the show, I created the initial video in the days leading up to opening night.

Each night after the show closed I continued working on the video until the next day. The video went through four iterations, the last being “sunday night.” The sound in the video was made by my good friend Ryan.

The video became an exploration in storytelling through iconography and repetition. The installation was set up spontaineously as well, loosely exploring the link between video and painting, and providing a skeleton for the video to exist in.

This video meditation was made in collaboration with my mother, who originally wrote the meditiation for an equinox ceremony performed in 2021.

On the vernal equinox in 2022, I projected the piece onto the floodwall of the James River in Richmond, VA.

This piece was the direct result of time spent observing the forest floor during quarantine. Isolated from my community in the city, I turned to the insect world for a sense of belonging.

When I returned to the city, the insects followed me. I dedicated the winter of 2020 to them, working on this animation for many months and completing it in time for spring 2021.

This video installation was created with the intention of being projected on a gallery floor.

I made this piece as imaginative documentary about a future marred by the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline which was expected to tear through my hometown of Afton, Virginia. 

The documentary was completed in January 2020, just a few months before Dominion Energy cancelled construction of the natural gas pipeline citing increasing resistance from the community, cost, and the Covid 19 pandemic.

The work now lives on as a reminder of the risk rural communities face from exploitative environmental practices.