new york NEW YORK

artists: leah RAINTREE
designer: ben KRONE

suckerPUNCH: describe your project in one sentence.

ben KRONE: bloom field is an artist/ architect collaboration where two dimensional lines and forms were interpreted and translated into three dimensional relief panels and then cnc milled out of corian.

fabricator: associated fabrication

sP: what or who influenced this project?

bK: I became particularly fascinated with the way leah’s pen drawings were layered to imply a very defined and limited measure of space almost as if they were a series of cut outs folding into one another within the depth of an inch. the idea that a drawing could be simultaneously both two and three dimensional in nature influenced me to want to explore the idea that a wall or a ceiling or a floor could also be defined in this way.

sP: what were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?

bK: reading ‘the projective cast by robin evans, listening to the felt

sP: whose work is currently on your radar?

bK: jay davis