Everything is made up. We could live in whatever reality we choose, so why do we choose this one?

Every parent’s worst nightmare is the fear of losing your children, thus losing all hope.

There's an old expression, "everyone you meet is fighting their own war." Remember this next time you have a face-to-face interaction with a stranger. Pay close attention to how this idea affects your perceptions of that person. Why must everything be a struggle?

Our sensibilities help us navigate the world and operate as filters for interaction. In other words, they help us construct meaning through action. Design is a practice focused in shaping human sensibilities. Design is a craft-centric way of planning and structuring engagements with the world.

Work is often seen as a burden. It’s also a global platform for exploitation and greed. But what if we chose to structure work as means to self-expression, cultural exploration, and meaningful discovery?

This project is an attempt to capture the artistic spirit of my great-aunt, Mamie D. Davis, beloved aunt, sister, and veteran of the United States Navy. Mamie lived a long life with her partner Jewel in a modest Nashville home in the area known as Green Hills.

Looking at today’s landscape of products and services there are businesses disrupting every category imaginable. Mattresses, cookware, underwear, pet food, shoe laces, practically every aspect of the modern day living has a modernized brand identity and value proposition, occasionally with a comparable business model.

Designed objects (good and bad) are complex social constructs with their own embedded codes and rules. We must investigate these objects as if they create the architectures of social reality.