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UNTITLED, 2025: An adobe sculpture in the form of a “#” symbol.
For full information and details for this project, please visit: WWW.THEOPENFORM.ORG
The website built specifically for the project gives additional photographs, video, 3D Animation, Editorial, and Resources.
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Curatorial writing that gives details of installation:
Formally, a multitude of references cascade throughout this work. On the walls, the negative space of small-scale prints from a family album depicting a child, a young white male body, have been etched out to reveal a white ground. These personal images of the artist himself are mounted among English Ivy toile wallpaper, first introduced in the 18th century, and recreated for this exhibition. In its initial form, the wallpaper was found to be a toxic material due to the pigments, and the ivy itself became an invasive species. In the middle of the room, sits a vitrine that was once used in the V&A Museum in London, and holds many of the tools used to etch the photographs, along with remnants of removal. It also includes the 35mm camera used to capture the images, and a family album. The formal analogues to renaissance moments are abundant, but it is the space between them that the conceptual analogue truly takes hold. All together, they resonate as a foregrounding of the gaze, a subtly disquieting review of surroundings that shape and inform the strangeness of looking, while provoking a clear eyed critique of white supremacy.
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Aquia Creek Quarry is the topic of a series of continuing photographs. The sandstone from Government Island in Stafford County, Virginia is the site of excavation by primarily enslaved workers for the materials to construct the original White House, Capital, and several other Governmental buildings in Washington DC. It was also used in various other construction projects through the middle of the 19th century.
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Material: Pulled from the excavated original family photographs, this series of white paintings use various brands of oil paint direct from tube of manufacturer in their specific zinc and titanium whites color palettes. Color keys are included in images. One is both sets of colors and the other is only titanium white, which is being used on a series of other paintings being worked on currently. Painting shown are three in a series of white self portrait works. Materials: Zinc White and Titanium White oil paint from numerous brands.
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Selection of photographs from a series made in the viewing room of my father’s cremation.
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Series of photographs made in the Arctic Circle with focus of time, the environment and White Space. Inspired by Toni Morrison’s series of essays Playing In The Dark this series will continue with my next trip in 2024 to the North Pole. These are a few of the photographs made within the project time in the Svalbard archipelago aboard a Barquentine sailing vessel during my time with the Arctic Circle Residency in the summer of 2023.
Medium: Expired medium format film.
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Hygrothermographs and other temperature / humidity instruments throughout museums are seen isolated. This project encompasses numerous locations worldwide, focusing the lens on details of the internal architecture and the often unnoticed instruments that facilitate monitoring of collected property and space within the institution. These photographs revolve around the many questions I have regarding the systems and human involvement
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Primary project while in residence at BOXO Projects in Joshua Tree, CA.
I spent a year compiling data and being in touch with local officials as I worked to get the Joshua Tree National Park visitors center in Joshua Tree, CA to switch from single use plastic water bottles to a water refilling station and more sustainable practice. There are over 3 million visitors to the park each year and the primary visitors center only sold single use plastic water bottles for years. Through my time working on this the water refilling station was cancelled due to the covid pandemic and lack of funds which were required to be governmental due to the parks status, but they switched there affiliation and product to a reusable water container rather than single use.
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The sound file consists of morse code. The encode communication characters are:
As the Salton Sea water level decreases over time the level of dust rises causing more health problems especially among kids. Toxic dust of agricultural runoff full of pesticides toxic metals ddt and other heavy metals in that sediment surround the Salton Sea. We need to save the sea. It would be certain death to people of the imperial valley.
Video file: Night time walk through of the space.
Site: Burnt out meth lab Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California
Materials: California Sage, Barnacles, Fish bones, Date Palm Charred Stumps, Rusted Children's Swing, Coal, Pages from The Einstein Intersection by Samuel Delany
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A series of site specific photograms that extend the visual perspectives within the sensory environment. By using the hygrothermograph in conjunction with the work these images capture a deeper essence within the surrounding environment from light and space to temperature and humidity. Removing the instrument from the museum the recordings are a 24 hour durational drawing performance of documentation between the site and the artist coordinating historical narratives with the instrument. A continual change recorded through light and time, as well as temperature and humidity of space.
Part of series shown here: The Aurelian Wall, 2017 & Galileo Viewing, 2017
The Oakton company who manufactures a form of the device used describes them as, “Precision instruments useful for monitoring temperature and relative humidity conditions over time. They create a permanent chart recording of these measurements for your records. Their quartz-controlled drive maintains an even drum speed even when batteries are weak (or when the spring winding runs down).”
*Example photograph of instrument used is included above.
(Primary project while in residence at The American Academy in Rome as a visiting artist.)
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Multiple performance venues in outdoor locations paired with an indoor performance. The indoor performance included a single screen edit playback video of those performances with surrounding audio directly behind me.
Influenced by the continued systemic issues Americans face everyday throughout the United States and the poetry of Pamela Sneed.
A total engagement, meditations on the wheel are integral to my work. The performance of mind and body working in unison through restrained energy and poetic focus heightens awareness of nature and time. Working with elements of the Earth, as well as the alchemy involved, brings a clarity to my thoughts and ease through my body. Japanese heritage, art and culture have influenced many aspects of my work and through this I chose the Chawan, tea bowls, as my creative output.
A few examples...
