White Box Black Box Design is the focus of my creative practice in interior design. My goals for this work are to develop strategies for the use of color and ornament in interior environments.
In this work, I explore specific conditions for painted interior surfaces, asking the following questions:
- How can color, pattern, and ornament be used to define interior spatial volumes?
- How can the distribution of color across different planes creating the interior envelope, alter the perception of the space?
- What is the potential of pattern and ornament today?
Currently, I am pursuing design proposals under the categories of Abstraction, Illusion, and Narrative. Color studies pursued in these design proposals pursue a range of ‘color stories’ such as focusing on saturated colors, or tints and shadows or complementary contrasts.
White Box/Black Box Design works within the following design parameters: 1. Interrogate what color alone can achieve 2. User Experience of the space: duration over time and 3. What Paint alone can achieve.
Acknowledging there is a long history of designers and artists using these tools, I am pursuing what are unique qualities (tools, media, and lifestyle) of how we live today, to help expand the role of color and ornament in the contemporary interior.
