I decided to call my graduate practice “Derez” which is short for deresolution, a term used to describe someone or something disappearing or dissolving. As a graphic designer I am interested in the word “resolution,” and the ways that our terminology and practices both imply and control visibility. My work this year critiques the ways design has been used to hide environmental issues, and explores how graphic design can make the climate crisis palpable, urgent, and worth caring about. My projects investigate graphic design as a rhetorical vehicle for a sustainable agenda. My graduate practice investigates sites of ecological harm that are hiding in plain sight. I dig into the immateriality of crypto-mining, the invisibility of the Internet, and the veil of language that makes these disappearances possible. I speculate on the plasticity of language and its power to manipulate, disguise, bury, and warp the climate crisis. In all of my projects, I explore how environmental crises can be made visible, comprehensible, and ultimately, understood.

Derez, Thesis Book           
Graduate Practice, CalArts
2021-2022