This Is My Tombstone

Memorial Design

For this project, I designed a memorial to my (aspirational) creative legacy. I started with mission statements for myself and my legacy:

To remember those who molded me; to reject apathy; to make things that make living easier.

To be a place of quiet impact and warmth.

After weeks of sketching, molding, and thinking, what resulted was a boulder-like bench carved to resemble layers of compressed rock. I directed a 3D artist to create this concept art:





Here it is next to a clone trooper for scale:



Keep scrolling to see the sketches and clay studies that informed the 3D art:






2021 for Miami Ad School. Instructor James Harrill