Kathleen Peek | pieces of a portrait

HOW DO YOU REPRESENT A LIVING PERSON ON DEAD PAPER?

Each experience is unique to the individual, uninterpretable to anyone else but the person that the experience belongs to. I could describe endlessly how good my taco was at lunch, but no one could ever quite fully comprehend exactly how it tasted to me even if they ate the same exact taco. All the viewer can do is collect the information given and construct an understanding. In this quest to comprehend another’s experience, the viewer then creates his or her own experience. Therefore, the pieces of any person are presented, begging to be put together to see a peek of the whole. How do you represent a living person on dead

paper? You present pieces of the whole, so the viewer can take those pieces, static and dead when they stand alone, and gain their own understanding of the living, breathing, dynamic individual as a whole creating a simultaneous portrait of both the viewed and the viewer. In seeking to understand my experience, you create your own.

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| campus intervention

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GENOA, ITALY SPRING 2014PROFESSORS LUCA ROCCO, NICHOLAS AULTPARTNERS: ALLIE TATE, PAGE TARLETONWar and Peace are equal and opposite, an endless cycle constantly producing the other. In this project we designed two museums to bring attention to the emotions and complexities of the cycle between war and peace as well as a memorial amphitheater for reflection. A simple concept with complex applications, we designed the experience of each museum to interact with one another. The peace museum has a tranquil feel, with transparent spaces and an ascending circulation. The war museum has a dark feel, with heavy materials and raw moments. The user ascends into the gallery of the peace museum while the user descends into the gallery of the war museum. Instead of commemorating a specific time of peace or war, the museums were both designed and curated to create the emotions of either war or peace. The museums displayed the same artists, yet the pieces conveyed different ideas and concepts producing either a feeling of war or a feeling of peace. The intention was to evoke these reflective emotions through the art, program, materials, and structure.

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TICCLEMSON, SCFALL 2013PROFESSOR ANNEMARIE JACQUESPARTNERS: PAUL MOSHER, SARAH STUMPOIn visiting a site, the site always speaks to what it authentically wants. This project sought to solve a problem on Clemson’s campus through the intervention of public furniture. My group chose to analyze a site on Bowman field, a major public space where a beloved tree dubbed the “hammock tree” had recently fallen. The absence of the tree created a gap in the landscape, and completely changed the thriving node into only a path to get across Bowman field. In seeking to recreate the node without disturbing the serenity of the nature present, we chose to fold the earth to create a natural amphitheater with a wooden path on the most used path through the site. The cut path was informed by the griding of adjacent Godfrey hall being imposed on the site as well as the most used natural path through the site. Made from the earth present as well as rammed earth and gravel for drainage, this intervention would recreate the node while still allowing the functional path to exist.

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FALL 2013PROFESSOR ANNEMARIE JACQUESThis project is a domestic violence outreach center in historic downtown Seneca. The issue of domestic violence is often overlooked by society; therefore, I chose to use the sun orientation and materials to bring light in the space strategically, and to also symbolically bring light to the situation of domestic violence. Each of the five ribbons create openings for the sunlight while still making a guarded vulnerability for victims. Each of the strips break off to make the floors, the walls, and even some of the furniture in the building, giving the spaces more fluidity. The project is set in historic downtown Seneca in an old building that had been used for a multitude of purposes in its history. The program includes both private and public spaces that could make victims feel more comfortable coming in their time of need. The ribbon facade stemmed from trying to have privacy while still letting in light, and ended up translating to all of the building to create a continuity throughout the structure.

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STGREENVILLE, SCFALL 2014PROFESSOR SALLIE HAMBRIGHT-BELUEPARTNER: AARON PETERThis project addresses the question : what can design offer the local food movement. After researching, it became evident that design could offer the food movement exposure because most people have no idea where their food comes from or how it affects their body. Just the same, most individuals have little to no knowledge of the built environment and its effect on individuals and the environment as a whole. The goal of this project is to expose the food, architecture, and people, keeping everything honest. The strategies for achieving exposure are circulation, transparency, and education. In seeking to connect farmers to consumers, we redesigned an existing feed & seed as well as designed an adjacent urban farm. The site is laid out so that the main axis of circulation runs through the middle of the site, giving exposure to all of the processes going on. The exterior of the retail building, all facades are either transparent or grown on. Every space of the feed and seed can be accessed by the public, either literally or visually.

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1. Retail2. Check-out3. Kitchen4. Dish Room5. Dining6. Meat Counter7. Meat Processing8. Fish Holding9. Poultry Holding10. Storage11. Red Meat Holding 12. Restroom13. Janitor’s Closet14. Break Room15. Open Market16. Produce Processing17. Freezer18. Dairy19. Produce Holding20. Office21. Produce Receiving22. flexible education 23. overlook

1. Retail2. Check-out3. Storage4. Restroom5. Lockers6. Janitor7. Classroom8. Open Office9. Produce Processing10. Walk-in Cooler

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EDUCATION Clemson University, Clemson, SC 2011-2015 Bachelor of Arts Architecture Major, Art Minor 3.52 GPR Calhoun Honors College Clemson Architecture Center, Genoa, Italy Spring 2014 Architecture Program St. Joseph’s Academy, Baton Rouge, LA 2007-2011 Honors Graduate 4.25/4.0 GPR

SKILLS Autocad Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Lightroom Dreamweaver Muse Rhino 5 Google Sketch up Hand Drafting Model Making Microsoft Office Programs

AWARDS/HONORS/LEADERSHIP AIAS Clemson 2011-present Alpha Lambda Delta Honors Society 2011-present Delta Delta Delta, Beta Theta Chapter Fall 2011 Pledge Class Chapter Correspondent 2013-2014 Clemson University Dean’s List 2011, 2013, 2014 Catholic Students Association 2011-present

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Our Daily Rest Homeless Shelter, Seneca, SC St. Agnes Soup Kitchen, Baton Rouge, LA

EDUCATION Clemson University, Clemson, SC 2011-2015 Bachelor of Arts Architecture Major, Art Minor 3.52 GPR Calhoun Honors College Clemson Architecture Center, Genoa, Italy Spring 2014 Architecture Program St. Joseph’s Academy, Baton Rouge, LA 2007-2011 Honors Graduate 4.25/4.0 GPR

SKILLS Autocad Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Lightroom Dreamweaver Muse Rhino 5 Google Sketch up Hand Drafting Model Making Microsoft Office Programs

WORK EXPERIENCE 7 Elements Fine Art School Summer 2014 Art and Architecture Teacher Ann Connelly Fine Art July 2014 Gallery Architectural Intern Clemson Creative Services Fall 2013 Design Intern Print and Web Graphics/Branding

Amesbury Companies Summer 2013 Creative Intern/Web Developer Print and Web Graphics/Website Design

Aspen Heights June 2012 Summer Consultant Social Media Promotion

Amesbury Companies Summer 2010, 2011, 2012 Office Assistant