Hey! My name is Lucie Roche (she/her), and I am from San Diego, California. This is not my first time in New York, I have visited a handful of times which is why I was so excited to be here for the next four years or more! As you will see in the rest of this post, I love color and working with lighting. My major is interior design, which I am so passionate about. Currently, my favorite design period is postmodernism. As you can see in the photo to the left, I love to get outside and enjoy the outdoors, even if it’s a park in a big city! I also enjoy lots of different types of music, my favorite subgenre at the moment is 90’s dream pop!

Above is “16” one of my favorite pieces I have completed to date. I like to work with materials that are able to evolve and shift, this particular piece is a polymer clay base. I think some of my favorite pieces are not the ones that took the longest or are the most detailed and technically intricate, they are the ones that have the most meaning. This piece was inspired by a found object, a small, beat-up mini purse that I used for a year straight when I was 16. I wanted this sculpture to personify the bag and turn it into something that could take in and see everything that I had experienced when I was holding the bag. I made this piece as a tribute to my 16-year-old self, as a remembrance of my constant coming-of-age.

 

Above is an untitled digitally collaged piece I created. The project was inspired by the places I have traveled and candid photos I took on my phone. I made this piece as a commemoration of the idea that we all take important, candid photos every day. I was inspired by the fact that I have over 20,000 photos in my camera roll on my phone.

I decided to study at Parsons because of the overall design education that you get as well as the ability to focus on a specific major. No other design school offered interior design as a major within a larger school.  I also liked that it is part of the School of Constructed Environments.