Queer Quartz Designs
Milo creates a line of body adornments and durable housewares to sell at small-scale, local arts markets in the DMV. They call their brand Queer Quartz Designs, as many of their creations celebrate queer, trans, nerodivergent, disabled, and chronically ill identities. Not only do they enjoy the process of actually making these goods, but they also appreciate being a part of their own local, beloved economy.
As much as possible, they try to use upcycled raw materials to create their products. They divert unwanted textiles from landfills by transforming them into crocheted home goods such as pet beds, rugs, and baskets. Milo also hand stamps, screen prints, and re-works upcycled clothing items.
Invisible Disability Exhibit
Milo made their gallery debut in 2023 at Make Studio in Baltimore with this mixed media sculpture inspired by their own ribcage.
Healing Isn’t Linear
Milo created their Healing Isn’t Linear project to explore the themes of healing and community. The piece is an interactive installation which plays recordings of people who have been a part of their own healing process saying the phrase, “Healing is [participant inserts their own response].” The recordings are triggered to play when a someone picks up one of the stones within the sculpture.
This piece showcases Milo’s fabrication skills, including CNC machining, laser cutting, wood working, soldering, 3D modeling in Rhino, parametric designing in Grasshopper, basic coding using Scratch, and basic circuitry.
Check out their creative process journal to learn more about this piece.
Curb Cut Design Studio 