"what color are the drapes?" (long pause) "and the carpet?"

It’s been happening since toddler age — breakthrough dialog like the one above about my parent’s London hotel interior. An underlying urgency to see, to construct one’s own simulation through obsessive problem-solving. 

Growing up in Manhattan and later Ossining, New York, this immediacy to formulate visual connections have been engraved at an early age. Attending fine art classes, working design internships, and questioning the nature of what’s constructed. Arriving at a place where opportunity and imperative intuition connect one’s individuality. Solving the semantic interpretations of everyday objects and experiences. Working through these challenges have surfaced from multidisciplinary tendencies in an approach to see something new. Something undiscovered. Landing into a realm of complex and diverse materials, addressing the idea of sustainable practice through the means of transformative up-cycling. Where the past life of a certain entity — becomes new. 


LOU RODGERS

BFA Apparel Design

RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

2018