The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum; the contemporary art museum at Michigan State University.

The Transported Man exhibition is inspired by a magic trick described in Christopher Priest’s 1995 novel The Prestige. The spectator of a magic trick wonders what happened in the ineffable moment when a magician disappears and reappears at the other side of the stage, in the same way a viewer might wonder what happened when a piece of soap, a mirror, or a shoe reappears as a sculpture.

I developed an experiential system in which the viewer of the exhibit received a printed card with a prompt they would then engage with the artwork through.

Designed in collaboration with Madeline Rosemurgy; photography by Eat Pomegranate

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Cup of Tea

Working with The Bailey Tea Project, a student run business at Michigan State University, branded tea bags were sold at the museum gift shop. Each tea bag was categorized after the three stages of a magic trick: the pledge, the turn, and the prestige, but were also branded inline with the museums brand guidelines.