Almost every object in the bathroom has gone through improvements and design updates
except for the toilet. The toilet is now made in designer colors, but beyond that it hasn’t
changed much. When I began this project at the beginning of the school year, I was going
to make toilet tank lids and began making molds for lids that would fit a majority of
toilets. As I started collecting toilets to display these lids, I found that there is no
universal size. Every toilet I got was different in size than the previous one, so I decided
to use prefabricated toilets. In this decision I went from being a maker, to someone who
puts things together. In my time at LSU my work as gone through major changes. I
began making crude, handbuilt, cartoon pieces, but this work left me unsatisfied, because
the work was more about process that the piece itself. I then switched to mold making,
because the process took my hand out of the work and allowed the piece to speak for
itself. I have now found myself somewhere between a maker and assembler.