Art YouStep Inside.
Engineer. Artist. Collaborator. Based in LA, available to hire, and open to art collaborations.
Immersive Experiences
Art events and installations that blur the invite people to imagine themselves and the world in a new way. Each experience reframes something familiar with the hope people will see something new.
No Ice
A one-night-only art bar exploring the limits of hospitality. When kids receive big, over-complicated toys they have to wait for them to be put together. So often while the parents are struggling with pages of instructions the kid is having more fun with the box. In a world of over-complicated bar experiences, No Ice is the box.
Decor: 80's Midwestern rec room. Faux wood paneling, orange shag carpet, retro laps, second hand art
Menu: Batched drinks, dad can beers, whiskey, and grilled cheese made in toasters.
View on Instagram ↗No Ice: Hot Stuff
A celebration of entropy and the inevitable heat death of the universe. Entropy is ever increasing, we're all going to die, and there is nothing we can do about it except choose how we want to live.
Decor: We created a physical space with a gradient of decor from warm to cold, from extra to sparse to allow people to physically move through the idea of changing entropy in the universe.
Menu: Hot dogs with hot giardinara, chips and hot sauce, batch drinks (one hot, one cold), dad cans, whiskey.
View on Instagram ↗Galafractic: Martian Landscape
Found and recognizable objects all painted the same color and arranged as a martian terrain in a large window display. Everything is familiar, but not in a way you've seen before.
Decor: The installation was laid out in collaboration with the team taking inspiration from Mars rover photos. I created an interactive experience where people could take a picture to create a Martian ID and see themselves on Mars through a face swap with a digital astronaut.
View on Instagram ↗Each experience is designed to be participatory. Want to collaborate on the next one?
About
I'm Wayne. I'm an engineer, artist, and collaborator. I've spent 16 years building at companies large and small. The best work I do lives at the intersection of ideas and experience with a focus real people.
Based in LA, by way of Houston and Denver. I make immersive art events and mixed media installations. My work brings people together around something unexpected. I believe in growth and creating connection for myself and others. Available to hire. Open to collaboration. Let's create something together.