An offering to tenderness that is muscular. Often a series of vessels loosely and briefly holding water, allegory of living bodies. Architectures made of soft, and slow, and choice, and stubborn, queer matters that require tending to, in acknowledgement of communal being and existence.
I work as a sculptor, fabricator, and independent arts organizer, and fledgling aerialist. I make poems, and durational installations and organize immersive and cooperative, community-centered public installations. My practice incorporates intimate collaboration, the performative act of public process, writing, and ephemera into its presentation and these are an equal part of the work.
My work is formal, choreographing light, texture and body. I am concerned with care, tenderness, and loss. The shapes I build have a likeness to their surrounding architecture or landscape. They make use of the natural movement of water, or wind through the space they take up. I am attracted to sticky, stretchy and squishy materials with which I can empathize.
I consider the totality of material required to make a work, all of the pieces that get thrown away, the tools to build it. The work must carry the weight of the waste it produces.