Devine Design ~
Kate Mulligan and Cassandra August met on the job at one of 'America's
dirtiest jobs' in Moss Landing, MarkConcrete.) Together, under the tutelage of owner Mark Lesnick, they have joined forces in exploring concrete, using forms to create unique meditation walls for use in interior living spaces, as well as separate structures known as 'Meditation Huts' for individual solace in exterior landscapes.
Aspiring to be followers of desingers like Ross Lovegrove, where "...curiousity and instinct work together to create amazing art. (Industrial art is the artform of the 21st century.)" What better medium than concrete to work in, particularly Iguanacrete, a new force of concrete nature, and green (100% concrete, with 0% Portland cement!) MarkConcrete uses locally available products including waste glass (San Leandro, CA) and granite dust (Aromas, CA). Overall recycled content is over 95% and more than 65% is sourced locally, so our walls and huts have naturally sourced elements as well as superior stregnth and durability.
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The stand alone walls incorporate textural elements that form a meditative surface on which to rest and ponder upon. where the play of light and shadow are as valuable as the structure itself. The 'MH's, also known as Lotus huts, are custom built units, whose purpose is to hold one's attention/ peace of mind within, and restore personal tranquility by offering visual elements in the form of etched walls that incorporate personal symbols and effigies, crystals, candle light and patterns of natural light to pour over the space as the sun transits the sky from season to season, (Think a personal 'micro Stonehenge'.)
As far as instinct and versatility, we don't just think on our feet, we dance with concrete! OK, sometimes it's just mud-wrestling, but like the Buddhist mind set,our journey is likened to the Lotus, from the roots embedded in the mire, to the blossoming blissful flower floating on the surface of the mind's eye - our vision and journey is the path of creative realization.
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Kate Mulligan is currently a digital designer, previously an Artist in Residence in many of the South Bay area schools, having worked previously with many museums and non profitls, including The Lucille Packard Children's Hospital in 2003. She has exhibited her work throughout the South Bay area. (See resume and portfolio)
Cassandra August is a Certified Interior Designer with a heavy emphasis on hands on construction skills that started when she was a little girl helping he Dad build fences and decks. She learned how to quilt in High School and quickly realized that quilting and carpentry are essentially the same thing with different media. She has worked at a lumber and supply company which exposed her to all the building materials available to the builder.
She has worked as a State Park maintenance worker, residential carpenter, project manager and had her own Interior Design company. She can draft kitchens and baths, landscapes, plans for permits, decorative concrete details and she can draft in reverse for concrete forms. For the past 4 years she has worked at Mark Concrete as the “Jane of All” for this decorative concrete company, utilizing her skills, creativity and organization. In her free time she likes to create hand bags (see below), courtier feather head specters, and plant succulents.
