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Looking Through the Machine

If the only answer is up or down, why don't we live on a 2 dimensional plane

You can not grow by eating your own flesh.
Atrophy
To eat your own flesh is to deepen your starvation.

True intelligence and strength is achieved through exploration of the infinite unfamiliar and strange.

Submerge yourself into another's skin

Embrace the strange and unfamiliar and you will be knowledgeable, care for it and it will share its secrets with you, become the strange and unfamiliar


I seek to put my viewer into the perspective of another. By creating immersive installations and activating the senses of my audience, I hope to remove them from their limited perspective and allow them to see through someone else's eyes. I don't seek to remove others from themself, instead to cultivate empathy and understanding for those that they consider different. By opening a space of self reflection, I hope that my viewer will leave thinking of their role in creating this perceived difference. You and I are both flesh to feed, so let us interchange our perceptions.

Bio

I create objects, paintings, performances, and events that explore the complexities of the human experience—conflict, visibility, and vulnerability within society. My current work examines assimilation in America and the church, the visual language of care, and the interplay between simulation, the sublime, and sensory experience. By engaging with painful or challenging moments, I aim to foster healing, empathy, and communal connection. My practice, rooted in empathy, nurture and support, often juxtaposes emotional depth with sharp, contrasting visuals. I am currently preoccupied with the idea of combining recognizable and unrecognizable materials such as metal, latex, and natural materials as a means of exploring the conceptual or formal tension. Hard and comforting my practice thrives in a place between contrasting feelings, and I choose material to embody these feelings, ideas, and research.