How the land holds us. How we hold the land.

This body of work was developed alongside an interest in deepening my exploration of embodiment through painting alongside topics including attempts to repair the manmade damage to our environment through technical innovation, how feminism and queerness disrupt the technosphere, indigenous practices of land stewardship and relationship, and how our relationships with one another and the world around us can be reframed through a lens of caretaking, solidarity, and mutual aid.

queer temporalities (or, all together now in the same breath)

oil on canvas
2022
24x20in

monument to lost islands

oil on canvas
2022
24x20in

towards the periphery

oil on canvas
2022
48x48in

alter / altered

oil on canvas, 60”x40”

how the land holds us

oil on canvas
2021
30x48in

to be a bay

oil on canvas
2021
60x60in

a wildness of being

oil on canvas
2022
20x16in

carving into the marrow

oil on canvas
2022
20x24in

interdependencies

Nested

nest (verb)

1. to build or occupy : settle in

2. to fit compactly together or within one another : embed

Nested uses paint color samples or paint chips as the basis for a multi-year rumination on the expected social and cultural roles of women as wife, mother, caretaker, and laborer.

Nested is an installation of 538 hand-sewn paint chips – acquired from various hardware stores. As objects these paint chip and the many thousands of hours represented in the intricate hand-stitched concentric shapes form a basis from which to consider domesticity, expectations of home ownership, the popularity of home improvement and DIY culture, and the unrealistic expectations placed on women to tend to the domestic needs of a household -both physical and emotional.

As an installation, Nested draws on subtle variations of time, and the hand to call attention to this labor and - in this instance - its ultimate futility as each of the 538 paint chips charts one day in the course of a failed marriage.

Nested

Full view 1

As installed at MCLA Gallery 51 as part of ‘shel•ter’ Aug. 30 - Sept. 23, 2018

Nested

Install-in-progress

We Wanted to Be Art Monsters

2016

hand-sewn muslin panels, rug, books, ipod, pillows, vinyl 'wallpaper'

site-specific installation at MCLA Gallery 51

Re-Imagined Landscapes

In this apx. 14' long installation materials are collaged together to explore the multiplicity of roads not taken. Hand-cut maps evoke, neural networks, roots, organic systems, and data maps - systems organic and inorganic.

re-imagined landscape

166"x80"

hand-cut maps, vellum, vintage sewing pattern, map pins, ephemera

In this apx. 14' long installation materials are collaged together to explore the multiplicity of roads not taken. Hand-cut maps evoke, neural networks, roots, organic systems, and data maps - systems organic and inorganic.

re-imagined landscape (human scale)

re-imagined landscape (detail)

re-imagined landscape (detail 2)