NATHAN S. BOWDEN
Designing spaces has become a way for me to process moments in my life - each design I create is an interpretation not only of the source material, but how I understand the world around me at that given moment. Capturing the human experience is why I love designing - I work to illuminate spaces in a way that is a snapshot of my mind, each design marking a stage of my life. As a designer, I strive to always find increasingly interesting ways to express the ‘mush’ in my head and transform it into something that other people can get excited about.
Currently, my work aims to capture the essence of what it means to be human. With the oversaturation of media today, I feel that it has been harder to find new stories that are genuinely human. I strive to evoke the chaotic, weird, confusing beauty of the human experience; it makes no sense, but perfect sense at the same time. The spaces I create are realistically abstracted; although the aging, architecture and other elements are rooted in realism, they are configured unconventionally, in flowing, exploding, and organic ways. In doing so, viewers remain in the heart of the story, but grow to view the work as a whole through the lens of their own experience.