We glister heavy gold but float. Wandering Styrofoam.
My work contends with the effects of systemic power on American wellbeing, specifically within sociopolitical structures. Disinformation in the media, religion and patriotism, gross disparities in wealth, shadowed political machinations. These are the tools of power and I aim for each work becomes a poeticized reflection of how they are leveraged against the populace to ongoing and often unforeseen detriment.
Utilizing both traditional and unconventional ceramics processes, performance, and time-based material events I create sculptural objects bolstered by, and situated alongside, more temporal multimedia installations. I rely on ceramic’s durability, contrasted by these other elements, to contribute to the notion that even our most shortsighted concerns have lasting consequences.
By reframing the effects of our informational, technological, and political systems in such a way my work becomes a metaphor of how those in power wield it and the impacts that has on the collective now and in perpetuity.