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You might never meet him, but Jordan Weaver will guide your way up the stairs to the Learning Space in Marianist Hall this year. Or at least his artwork will.

Weaver, 21, was one of six students who participated in this summer's Artists in Residence program in which students are selected and paid to create art to decorate the campus. Weaver's work is displayed in the west entrance of Marianist Hall.

"They're probably my favorite of all the work I've done," he said.

A junior visual communications design major, Weaver enjoys trying his hand in photography, sculpture and digital art. ArtStreet director Susan Byrnes, who also runs the Artists in Residence program, said Weaver has a unique style.

"Jordan was the only artist I had who had a sculptural background," she said, "So when you look at his pieces, even though they are two-dimensional, they have a little more of a sculptural feel about them."

Weaver's work, displayed in the Marianist stairwell, are abstract images of everyday occurrences stripped of the details.

"My artwork is a new position on things you have seen," he said. "I take ordinary photos of ordinary scenes and strip all of the complex and distracting parts out."

Weaver achieves this effect by creating images from two strips of pixels from the horizontal and vertical centers of the images. He then stretches the strips out to become the "mathematical mean of the image it was." He then takes the horizontal layer and prints it into a clear film before doing the same with the vertical layer. Finally, he overlays them to give the piece a multidimensional look.

Weaver plans on getting his master's degree in industrial design and pursuing a career as an industrial designer. He already has some experience in the design field, working for an Internet marketing firm in the summer of 2009.

Weaver and his fellow artists will be recognized at Thursday's UD Art Hop. There will be a reception at 5 p.m. at the first floor Flex Space in Roesch Library.

"It'll be fun," Weaver said, "We get to walk around and see all the art that everybody in Artists in Residence did this summer. There will be a bunch of cool people there."