https://jessicamcq.com jessicamcq.com Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:43:40 +0000 https://jessicamcq.com en https://jessicamcq.com/Main Sat, 05 Mar 2022 17:33:25 +0000 jessicamcq.com https://jessicamcq.com/Main info work cv sketchesbrainstorm contact https://jessicamcq.com/intro-text Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:43:40 +0000 jessicamcq.com https://jessicamcq.com/intro-text My interests lie in the escape from drudgery and into one of freedom and agency over our limited time on earth. I am a designer, maker, and educator who focuses on play through an arts-based exploration of space, object, and environment.  I explore the action of play as a way to bring awareness to our bodies and situate us in time and space. I define play as an act of resistance to the capitalistic, work obsessed culture steeped in the spaces we inhabit. Play is anti-establishment and anti-rules. Play is splendor and leisure. Play is self-agency. I am inspired by the natural landscapes specific to place. A minimal intervention becomes the fulcrum that registers the temporality of the environment throughout the day and year. I am educated in architecture and a lifelong self-taught maker. I have enjoyed working with textiles, paint, wood, clay, wire, collage, and so on. I view my art and design practice as an opportunity to rediscover play through the act of intuitive making of things, with and for my body.yPlease visit my architecture practice, Soon Studio, at soonstudio.deignTucson, AZ    2022