Driving westbound on I-70, Kansas City sits like a jewel among the hills. Jewel is a drawing made in response to the multi-faceted and intricate ways our city is an ever changing, inventive place that feels familiar all the same. It is in those familiar moments when the unexpected occurs and wonder is found. Shifting lines and patterns encourages the viewer to take a second look, explore what they see, and experience something new during an otherwise forgettable moment in transit. Riding the streetcar will be marked by a moment of vivid color and lines twinkling in the sunlight. Derived from two line drawings abstracting the Kansas City skyline, I used a series of offset operations to create a moiré effect–always moving and morphing with the perspective of the viewer. Comparable to a jewel, Kansas City also took its time to become the city it is today. Formed by the constant care and pressure of hard-working community members emerges a place that people call home. Jewel aims to transform the everyday into a joyful, daydream-like experience where the viewer may find themselves reflecting on the layers of buildings, roads, lights, and sounds that form the city around them.

Bio:
Miranda Kaye Clark is a designer whose practice freely explores the possibilities of sculpture, color, and community-engaged design. The linear sweep of the 24-mile long Causeway Bridge near her childhood home in New Orleans cultivates her interest in large-scale infrastructure and urban logistics. Miranda’s work combines a research-based design practice with an interest in how technology, craft, and material come together in ways that expand the boundaries between art, architecture, and urban place-making.

Clark holds a B.F.A from the Kansas City Art Institute and is a recent graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, where she was a Feldman Prize finalist.

Instagram: @miranda.k.clark