I make site-specific installations that repurpose and reconfigure found object assemblages alongside video, sound, photographs, natural elements, and performance. Collecting objects is a central aspect of my practice, a survey of the places, interactions, and economies I inhabit. I construct the assemblages using discarded and thrifted household items, furniture, electronic devices, toys, partyware, and construction materials. Anything and everything can become ‘trash.’ Working with devalued objects allows me to question the lifespans of objects beyond a human time scale, how objects orient a sense of self, and how objects form shifting ambiguous networks of value and purpose. The works temporarily convene together in iterative installations through tying, clamping, taping, stacking, wrapping, adhering, stapling, or embedding. The attachment method and the objects act as mark-making tools with which I collaborate, econcouraging forms to succumb to gravity or mistakes of my own hand. I arrange the installations as three-dimensional drawings that fluctuate between collapsed disorganized planes and reorganized illogical structures, crudely assembling into speculative encounters that suggest how materiality might coalesce in a way that is alternative to and revealing of our everyday experiences.
My work uses play and humor to ask how objects exist beyond the human. Interested in tracing and queering edges, in-betweens, and boundaries between external and internal, I intentionally negate completeness and finality. My engagement with ephemerality, endurance, and failure relates to an object’s capacity to change material form, in that it will eventually disintegrate and combine with other materials, or symbolic form, in that it can evoke multiple gutteral or cultural meanings. Human purposes and functions typically define objects, yet the materiality and environmental impact of consumer objects exceed and resist human comprehension and control. By considering the subversive and absurd qualities of desire and utility, I provoke points of uncertain tension between material perception and expectation.
My work uses play and humor to ask how objects exist beyond the human. Interested in tracing and queering edges, in-betweens, and boundaries between external and internal, I intentionally negate completeness and finality. My engagement with ephemerality, endurance, and failure relates to an object’s capacity to change material form, in that it will eventually disintegrate and combine with other materials, or symbolic form, in that it can evoke multiple gutteral or cultural meanings. Human purposes and functions typically define objects, yet the materiality and environmental impact of consumer objects exceed and resist human comprehension and control. By considering the subversive and absurd qualities of desire and utility, I provoke points of uncertain tension between material perception and expectation.
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