Nathan
Carroll
DESIGNER
Nathan Carroll is a industrial designer and studio artist. His designs exist in a world between the high and low of everyday objects that have been queered by an automotive lens.
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The automobile is a vibrant consumer product that has transitioned between high and low popular cultures since its introduction. The automobile, just like jewelry, ranges from cheap transportation to highly collected works of art that exist in a "third space" of popular culture.
WORKS.
It is from nostalgia and personal experiences that I have chosen to utilize the visual vocabulary of the modernist development of the automotive industry to connect with contemporary cultural changes of current-day queer life. My work takes visual and cultural references from the nostalgia of the 1960s American car culture, auto platforms, and the introduction to system hybridization.
VW Beetle
Kit
The nostalgia for the iconic VW Beetle become transformed in a work of wearable art with this model kit that features parts which have been meticulously casted in sterling silver and adorned with diamonds, ruby, amethyst, sun-set topaz.
Toy
Racer
A static jewelry object on exhibition becomes alive with a computer animation that evokes the emanational qualities on silver and diamond. The animation features photon-mapped caustics of diamonds.
My Dream
American
Kit
The DIY model car-kit has been transformed to represent my idealized American Dream. A dream that is an exploration of how we curate nostalgic objects such as the automobile to create our contemporary identity. My dream features the Neo-libreal same-sex couple with their dog, Porsche Cayenne, and Audi RS6.