PORTFOLIO CATEGORIES
2009 Ryan Riegner Design
ELEFLATE
INFLATABLE SCULPTURE
By far one of my more favorite projects at Parsons, my inflatable elephant was originally intended to be placed over New York City MTA subway grate vents on the steet. The air current of the passing train would animate and bring to life a seemingly meaningless piece of trash on the street. However, the weather had been horrible all week so the demonstration was conducted indoors. The actual material is just painters plastic melted together by an iron. I bought a great stuffed animal elephant from FAO Schwatz, and deconstructed it, blew up the patterns to life size, and then remade the pattern. I only used a eight inch box fan to inflate the entire sculpture. Check out the video of the demonstration!
Here's the stuffed animal I used. >>
The Eleflate was also featured by FMLY, a New York based music and culture blog as the debut story to their Allstars Section.
FMLY Article >>
Here are some more websites that recently showcased the elephant, including wikio, Make:, and CDT so far. Check all these sites out in their entirety, some great stuff.
WIKIO >>
Make: >>
CDT >>
THE VERBS
EXHIBITION SELECTION
This was a project to display verbs in terms of a type of action. I chose the words "Reveal," "Conceal," "Explode," and "Erode." I wanted the manipulation of the material and the dimensionality of the paper to display the action, rather than using imagery to convey the concept. It was a great relief from my Adobe based cirriculum.
