Friction of the Trace
“Friction of the Trace” is an installation that explores the erosion of memory through the labor of a machine. Using an air-driven apparatus, a lightweight sail acts as a kinetic screen, catching and blurring projected imagery into a fluid, unrecognizable dance. This visual instability mirrors the shift from sharp recollection to the impressionistic “trace” that remains with age.
The work is grounded by the visceral, tonal sound of wood-on-wood friction—the “creak” of a mechanism straining to hold a form that is inherently fleeting. Visitors were invited to sit within this space of mechanical effort and visual dissipation, witnessing the beauty and frustration of a past that refuses to stay in focus. Here, memory is not a static record, but a physical performance of persistence and eventual erasure.
Shelf Life
"Shelf Life" is a structural interrogation of the social expiration dates imposed upon the individual. By stacking utilitarian forms into a precarious, illuminated totem, this work explores the "glare" of ageism and the fragile hierarchy of a culture that equates human worth with functional output.
From one side, the installation presents a rhythmic, monumental silhouette and from the other, the "backstage" is violently exposed. The harsh lighting and visible tension reveal the structural labor required to remain upright in a system that views the seasoned as a burden rather than a foundation. The work asks: at what point does a life of accumulated experience become seen merely as a matter of forgotten storage?
Amnesia
"Amnesia" examines the intersection of industrial obsolescence and the societal erasure of the aging body. The shipping pallet—a ubiquitous tool of global labor—is stripped of its utility and 'sanitized' through a ghostly whitewash, mirroring the way modern culture often flattens or renders invisible the identities of the elderly once their perceived productivity has peaked.
Woven through this skeletal frame is hand-stained linen, treated with black tea, salt, and grit to evoke the visceral textures of weathered skin and accumulated memory. As the fabric descends, it carries the 'stains' of a lived history—marks that persist even as the structure supporting them is pushed toward a state of forgetting. The work serves as a silent ledger of endurance, questioning what remains when a life's labor is complete and the weight of the past begins to pool on the floor."
Dissonance
This kinetic sound installation examines the futile pursuit of perfect harmony in an imperfect system. The project centers on a modified vintage record player, a once reliable machine designed for the reproduction of curated sound, and nostalgic narrative, stripped of its intended function. The apparatus instead becomes a relentless performer of failure.
Suspension No.1
This installation explores the tension between the domestic facade and the subterranean reality of the self. By suspending a 2x4 frame at chest level, l am presenting a landscape that is both familiar and alien—a ‘topography of the interior.’ The white lambswool serves as a soft, protective membrane, representative of the curated persona or the sanctuary of sleep. However, this surface is physically pierced and distorted by tree roots hidden beneath.
The use of filament line to pull these ‘mountains’ into existence suggests that our external landscape is often shaped by the invisible weight of things we have buried.
The piece asks the viewer to consider what lies beneath their own surfaces: what tensions are required to maintain the heights we reach, and at what cost to the membrane that holds us together?
Breaking Point
This installation touches on feelings of being on the edge of damage. With enough pressure and force, dreams and desires can be crushed or tossed aside for acceptance. In three specific areas I created a stage for representations of unease. The lighting was with tight beams to represent theater as if each presentation had its own performance. The metal showed strength and had sharp angular forms. The wood provided an organic aspect and had a worn and twisted, but stable platform. The eggs themselves represented fragility and the potential for breaking. The textural surfaces evoke a sense of struggle while the egg, with its smooth, bright surface poses dynamically and innocently awaiting the strain to take go too far.
The Journey
This installation reflects on what a journey might mean to the viewer as the elements symbolize movement with ascending forms. With the use of air and spotlighting, the almost alien forms trek into the distance during the night, catching bits of traveling light. The elements of branches and raffia ribbon resemble an organic natural landscape in motion.
12ft. x 9ft. Plywood scraps, dowels, cardboard, baling wire, branches, reflective mylar, raffia ribbon, electric fans and spray paint. This piece explores movement and linear tension.
The Gift
Solid patina bronze bowl, silicon bronze rod, paper.
The Gift represents the offering of a sapling to replace the clear cutting by corporate logging companies. We are losing forests at a rate equivalent to twenty seven soccer fields per minute. This sculpture represents the insignificant offerings by the corporations to cover the losses of ecological populations.
Steel & Yarn
A site specific work, built and installed using only scrap materials. Steel pencil rod, angle iron, yarn remnants and pumice blocks.
I’m attracted to tension, but am experiencing textiles and the relationships they can have with industrial materials. Fragility in numbers can create so much strain and stress to something that seems impervious to such things.
Speakers, amp, acoustic guitar, video.
A personal exploration. Moving back in time to create through play as I did in my childhood. Destruction was motivation. I realized through the process, destruction is not always immediate, but can also be lengthy. It can take years to destruct or deconstruct both physically and mentally. Rather than trying to hold things together, sometimes it’s okay to leave behind the verbs of devastation because that’s where they belong.
Destruct/Restruct
Fractured Reflections
18inch brazed steel pencil rod cube with shattered mirror and brass wire.
This piece started when I was gifted a piece of mirror from the 60’s. Displaying the mirror to be seen from all angles was my goal. To do this, I brazed steel pencil rod in a cube shape with plenty of gold wire to accent the corners. The viewer can see not only their own reflection, but in every direction simultaneously.
Catching Light
Yarn, gaffer tape, sunlight.
This is a simple representation of my obsession of the way light travels through open channels and lands on surfaces, forever morphing. When I witnessed the display of light on multiple surfaces one day, I began mapping the patterns. Once they were mapped on the wall, I connected them to the window sill and waited exactly 24 hours and two minutes to unveil the connection between surface and window with the intense beam of sunlight.
Corrosion of Conformity
Plaster mold multiples using two part expanding foam with gold paint and baling wire.
My question was about how to map the deterioration of a specific shape and display it in chronological order. Changing the chemical mixture of expanding foam created smoothness to roughness, denseness to porous. Suspending the objects put them on display as if they were being studied in museum setting.
