"I work across a wide range of media spanning the fields of art and design, always with the intent of exploring or expressing my curiosities about the world"

"Deconstructing the Dining Table" seeks to re-imagine the formal archetype and conventions of the dining table. Motivated in part by rapidly changing social trends which are changing our relationship with the dining table, and in part by a more fundamental need to re-examine quotidian objects which have become infra-ordinary, new archetypes and conventions are suggested. Research showed a continuing de-emphasis of the dining table as both formal structure and social nexus. It is this de-emphasis which suggests a literal and figurative dematerialization of the dining table, reflected in the outcomes.

Not only is the dining table re-imagined, but the outcomes also imply new environments, new ways of interacting with the table, and new aesthetics of eating. They transcend the infra-ordinary, finding a new voice with which to speak, reminding us of forgotten pleasures and proposing poetic new possibilities.

Jarrod earned a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, but started studying design and working as a designer virtually immediately thereafter. In 2004 he earned a Master's Degree in design from the Design Academy Eindhoven. Favorite artists include Takeshi Murakami, Tom Friedman, and Jenny Holzer, and his design influences include Jasper Morrison, Marti Guixe, Naota Fukasawa, and Charles and Ray Eames.

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