3D Printed Photoreliefs

Tactile translations of photographic memories; imagine a 3d Polaroid.

This newly developing dimension of my practice interrogates the transformative potential of 3D printing as a site-specific intervention tool, merging digital fabrication with traditional craft to uncover the layered histories embedded in landscapes and objects. By treating additive manufacturing as a reactive rather than purely technical process, I explore how it mediates between data, materiality, and human gesture.

Through documentary methodologies and cross-disciplinary experimentation, I challenge 3D printing's conventional applications, reframing it as an agent of transduction - a process that converts geographic, social, or archival data into tangible, tactile forms. The resulting works function as speculative artifacts, where algorithmic precision collides with the unpredictability of handwork - revealing tensions between memory and erasure, permanence and fragility.

Rooted in material inquiry, my research asks: How can digital fabrication tools like 3D printing not only represent, but actively reinterpret, the histories embedded in landscapes and objects?

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AUArts Main mall

3d Photorelief of the Main Mall area of the Alberta University of the Arts

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AUArts North Entrance

3d Photorelief of the north entrnace hallway of the Alberta University of the Arts