- 2-D animation
- 3-D animation
- Abstract
- Abstract Painting
- Alt. process photography
- Animation
- Architect
- Archivist
- Art History
- Arts Writer
- BFA
- Blacksmith
- Book arts
- Book Illustration
- Branding
- Calligraphy
- Caricature
- Carpentry
- Ceramic
- Collaborative/collective
- Collage
- Color Photography
- Comics
- Commercial Photography
- Commission
- Community art
- Concept Art
- Conceptual
- Construction
- Copy photography
- Curator
- Development
- Digital 3-D modeling
- Digital Fabrication
- Digital Media
- Digital Photography
- Documentary
- Eco-Art
- Editor
- Editorial photography
- Engraving
- Etching
- Event photography
- Fab Lab
- Fashion
- Feminist
- Fiber
- Fiber Art
- Figure
- Film
- Film Photography
- Freelance
- Furniture Design
- Gallerist
- Game developer
- Garments
- Gender
- Goldsmith
- Graphic design
- Health and medical
- Home furnishing
- Identity Design
- Illustration
- Installation
- Interactive
- Interior Design
- Interior Painting
- Jewelry
- Kinetic
- Landscape
- Landscape Architect
- Lettering
- Letterpress
- Logo Design
- Master Printer
- Mechanical drawing
- Metal Fabrication
- Metalsmithing
- MFA
- Miniature
- Model
- Model maker
- Monotype
- Mural
- Mural Artist
- Music
- Packaging Design
- Painting
- Performance art
- Photography
- Porcelain
- Portrait
- Portraiture
- Preparator/ Art Handler
- Printmaking
- Product Design
- Public Art
- Public Engagement
- Representational
- Restoration
- Robotics
- Screenprinting
- Sculptor
- Sculpture
- Sign painter
- Social media
- Social Practice
- Soft Sculpture
- Stone
- Stop Motion Animation
- Street Art
- Surface Design
- Teaching artist
- Textile
- UI Design
- Video
- Visual Identity
- Web Design
- Wedding photography
- Window display
- Woodcut
- Woodworking
- Writer
The Space Between Us
Connect me with Mikayla Dennison
Sharing Straw, 2019, 9”x7”x1.5” Sterling Silver
Sharing Straw (in use), 2019, Digital image
Silly Straw 2.0, 2019, Copper, Brass, Powder coat
Silly Straw 2.0 (in use), 2019, Digital image
Lost Connection, 2020, Prop: Regulated 6” length, copper, brass Digital Image, Isolation void
I Can’t Hear Myself, 2020, 16”x8”, hand fabricated copper cone Digital image, Isolation void
Description
What are the tools, both physical objects and metaphysically, that humans use for coping, moving through the world, and connecting with others? I believe human interaction creates empathy. Empathy fosters understanding, and with understanding comes meaning.
By abstracting traditional silversmithing techniques, I create metal objects that foster unorthodox human interactions. My work provides moments of human empathy by activating an experience of vulnerable intercommunication led by my handmade object placed between two or more people. The objects, made for the table, hand, or body, are inspired by familiar objects that we might use in day-to-day life. Drawing from notions of persona, shadow, and what connects humans to one another, I aim to push ideas of object functionality through uses of play and performance.
