My Sparkling Star
Plastic Acrylic and Ribbon, 8 x 12”, 2023
Investigating the performance of gender within the intimacies of personal experience of gender expression this piece contemplates internal and external selfhood. Completed in a bright neon pink and adorned with blue ribbons this piece epochs traditional understandings of femininity. Though such representations of feminity are interrupted by sharp spikes and messy unplaceable internal imagery reflecting a rejection of such themes. “My Sparkling Star” connects the complications time creates as outside perspectives affect an understanding of selfhood through this progression of time.
Down in Those Twirling Shivering Trees
.01 Performance
Durational Participatory Performance, Cardboard, Acrylic Paint, Colored Pencil, Flowers, Fabric, Ribbon, Rocks
Audience members are invited onto the handsewn fabric to decorate the shelf silently, creating with one another without words, and forming a final piece that reflects on community care and unspoken communication.
Stars in the Sky
Site Specific Installation, Serigraph, Silk, Acrylic, Wire, Beads, Ribbon, Flowers, Yarn
2024, 1:06
Talcott Greenhouse Installation
I’ll Dance For You For Forever
Ribbon, Yarn, Dried Flowers, 10 x 15 ft, 2023
A site-specific installation “I’ll Dance for You For Forever” invites viewers to engage with the act of observation as an intrusive act as it rises above the viewer waiting to be seen. Interjected into a curated imitation of the natural world that exists in the Talcott Greenhouse these three sculptures stand out as an unnatural intrusion compelling the viewer to observe.
The bright pink, purple, and light baby blue bows, pink stars, and dried flowers cue viewers to the expected presentation of femininity as the delicate and intricate forms placate and capture the viewer’s gaze. The sculpture's high femme presentation “I’ll Dance for You For Forever” questions the way femininity is performed and how the act of looking and observation enforces an adherence to this performance.
Paragon Studios Show
Don’t Lie There’s Time and I’ll Forget Installation
Ribbon, Yarn, Beads, Dried Flowers, Wood, Found Objects, 5 x 7 ft, 2022
A show at Paragon Studios “Don’t Lie There’s Time and I’ll Forget” reflects on the processing of the passage of time and memory of childhood. This installation uses imagery that is obscured from the viewer’s sight to contemplate issues of gender and self-discovery, loneliness, and privacy.
In Don’t Lie There’s Time and I’ll Forget the practice of sewing is used to form a connection to family and the lineage of women who sewed while exploring the gendered nature of the craft. This installation examines the presentation of feminity and gender under both personal and outsider interpretations.
Meant to act as a resting place for reflection the hanging piece acts as a prompt for viewers to contemplate the issues of gender, loneliness, and privacy under the public gaze.
Project Stream Site-Specific Installation
Birds Fly Softly and Quietly
Serigraph, canvas fabric, rit dye, yarn, 6 ft x 3.5 ft, 2022
Focusing on interaction with nature built through observation and personal reimagining this site-specific installation reflects on private interaction with nature. The motifs of birds, branches, and stars communicate a naturalistic relationship to the site where the piece exists. Simultaneously the piece acts as a non-natural intersection into the natural environment it is placed within.
Captured here is the piece after a week-long installation period where the physical effects of time spent outside can be seen on the installation.