Eulogy [For Handsome]

Home
2023

Eulogy [For Handsome] is the title of a light installation that is dedicated to late my friend and dog, Handsome who passed away at the end of 2022. The LED light rope weaves between the trees in my mother's backyard as he once had.




















TRANSIENT

Locke Surls Center For Art And Nature
2023

TRANSIENT, as a concept, was initially intended to solely address a several decades old hideaway created in an escapist fantasy. The hideaway was a small handbuilt cabin in the woods, the contents of which at times consisted of the illusion of a pair of daughters. Internally, it existed as a place apart and far from the madding crowd, serving as a personal mental refuge. Externally, the physical space was to exist as a reprieve from the rising tide, rolling and cresting waves associated and operating in conjunction with forms of capitalism that are by design human rights violating, climate injustice inducing, and climate change accelerating.

In attempting to address and process a myriad of internal dialogues associated with capitalism, climate justice and romance, a conclusion was arrived at: a house is only a home, if a heart can find shelter within its walls. TRANSIENT, presents a passageway through the heart’s labyrinth curating a meditation on the varied products and by-products of a capitalistic society.

TRANSIENT, is a collaboration with long time friend Guadalupe Rocha, an artist whose goal is to create a sensory experience that blurs the lines between sound and vision. Epul Roch, his musical and occasional visual project, uses instruments and electronics to craft intricate sonic soundscapes. It is Rocha’s belief that the performer and listener, respectively, are arrayed like ever-shifting plot points on an uncharted sonic grid, creating an all-encompassing experience. “When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake.”





















Interpolation [A Path of Light]

SITE Gallery
2022

Birth, the formulation of self, the exploration of identity through engagement, an inference of conceptualized perception, a valuation of experience, the interlocking f past-present and present-future.




















A Way [A Will]

Art League Houston, Sculpture Garden
2022

A Way [A Will] exists as a tangible illustration of an individual’s trajectory through a life cycle. Acrylic sheets hover overhead, illuminated by a stand of EL Wire. The light force moves through the field of acrylic sheets which are representations of the hidden costs and glass ceilings we encounter in life.

The sculpture presents a physical manifestation of a gilded path, inviting the audience to witness the hidden parts of an individual's journey. Following the path through a system of ricochets, deflections, penetrations and moments of circumnavigation, it is possible to see how obstacles inhibit, reinforce or disengage a range of trajectories.

This artwork offers an opportunity for self-reflection upon our obligation to members of a global society. It exists as an abstraction that allows an individual to see themselves and also others as part of the same journey, traversing a similar structured network of obstacles.

There are two versions of the installation that live in the minds of Art League Houston's patrons. The first iteration speaks to a future journey, including a path that bridges a gap. However, the light element did not function. I took that to mean I, personally had yet to traverse that portion of the path.

The second iteration, the current version, does not extend out and over the gapped area. It spends a greater amount of time within that open space above the seating area; a space where the obstacles create a wall of obstruction. I feel this best represents where I am currently. Manuvering around the obstacles I am currently aware of and investigating my surroundings before pursuing a pathway forward.

This site specific sculpture is dedicated to Art League Houston Executive Director Jennie Ash, Galveston Arts Center Curator Dennis Nance, Guadalupe Rocha and Shayna Schlosberg: individuals who supported me, unreservedly, through one of the most difficult times in my adult life.

Extremely grateful for all the support that carried me out of a dark place, assisting me out of tunnel and into the light.




















A Spark [That Spirals Out]

The Orange Show
2022

A Spark [That Spirals Out] states that we all, no matter our respective level of influence, have the capability to change our surroundings, if only by being physically, mentally, spiritually or emotionally present and available.

As the audience approaches the sculpture, their entry made possible by navigating around the light elements, they will find themselves within the nexus point from which sparks project outwards. In this area, they become the chain reaction which forges one of the welds that form our collective and respective futures.

This sculpture is dedicated to the individuals who were not able to arrive in the future, their narratives welded into the framework of human existence.




















As Defined [By A Construct]

Artworks referencing Black identity as a construct
2021

















Scorched Earth

Scorched Earth eludes to a potential future in mixed media sculpture
2021
















Specimen

A series of works that depict diamond hearts as abstracted lifeforms
2021















Til You Become Oil

2021

Til You Become Oil explores the metamorphosis of thoughts, ideas, interpersonal experiences into commodifiable goods.