My work is the manifestation of my interest in the relationship between tangible systems and their digital counterparts. I'm intrigued by the process of becoming intimate with technologies of the past, so that I can gain new perspectives regarding their younger siblings. Through making with both obsolete and new technologies, I explore individual and social relationships, and our symbiotic relationship with innovation. My affection for typography, and for information systems surfaces in a dangerously nostalgic view of technologies past -- for example the letterpress and library card catalogs. I balance this nostalgia with a desire to create digital environments that utilize our moods and feelings in order to promote emotional intelligence and life beyond the computer screen. Through my work, I have explored a method of using physical prototypes to inform new digital creations in attempt to communicate the virtual potential of the computer a.k.a. "the black box" in a forum where it can be experienced sensorially. Exploring these tangible and digital relationships has inspired me to move further beyond metaphors and into meaning.