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Personal Weather, installation view

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Personal Weather, installation view

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A Robot Contemplates Suicide

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A Robot Contemplates Suicide

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Lanternhouse, installation view

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Lanternhouse, detail

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Lanternhouse in Studio

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Boys playing in a Lanternhouse

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Memory in Morse, 40 second video

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My studio practice has always been a deeply personal exploration of how identity relates, reflects, and adapts to trauma, loss, and the ephemera of living. Through my work, I employ visual metaphors that symbolize the fragility of life and the inability to hold anything without it vanishing. I focus on what lingers as memory or as shadow, whether in video works or my Lantern House installations. The influence of my background in dance is central to my creative process. I often manipulate space and shift the viewer's perception of it, using scale or content to engage their imagination. This approach allows me to create immersive environments that encourage participation, intimacy, and self-awareness of one's body in relation to the work.

Recently, my work has responded to the collective calamities of the pandemic, imposed isolation, and the personal and communal loss of loved ones. In response to this heaviness, I've created a series of illuminated, suspended installations that strive to breathe, float, and escape the darkness from which they emerged. This sense of suspension, of hovering between lightness and heaviness, is a recurring theme across my recent pieces. In my latest work, Spirit House, I am continuing this exploration. This life-sized shelter, constructed from Cyanotype fabric prints, hovers and moves while providing a sense of safety and elevation. It builds on the ideas present in my earlier Lantern House sculptures, and represents my largest hanging sculpture to date, created in collaboration with Ruth Adams.