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 past-present and present-future.

Reference [Remember I Made All Those Yarn Installations]

Only Magic Fest
Tropidelia

2024

       Reference [Remember I Made All Those Yarn Installations] as is described within its title, references ten years of sculptural work utilizing yarn as a primary medium. The light sculpture presents a minimalist interpretation of the taut fiber structures by curating pathways through open space while referencing the conic bases and archways.

Highlights [Realized]

All About Art, Chapter 6
Bad Astronaut Brewing

2024

       Highlights [Realized] is the third installation referencing highlights, or the possibilities of successes projected into a uncertain future. The first iteration of the series titled Highlights, was part of Dimensions, an installation centered art exhibition held at Harrisburg Art Museum (or HAM). The sculpture made reference to aspirations held for a positive outcome for a decision that would have ripple effects, reverberating throughout my professional and artistic career. It contained elements from a time when, while being unhoused, I found a pathway to a better future.

    Highlights [To Exist Within], an installation which marked the presence of those successes projected from its previous iteration in the present atmosphere. The black light reactive sculpture took over the gallery space at Hardy & Nance Studios during the 2019 Art Crawl.

    Highlights [Realized] is realization of my compounded hopes and goals presented in conversation with artists, vendors and collaborators at All About Art, Chapter 6 held in the flex space at Bad Astronaut Brewing.

We Grieve Different

These works address the shared, selective and individual perspectives within a moment of bereavement.
2024

Til You Become Oil

2021

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

Specimen

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

Scorched Earth

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

As Defined [By A Construct]

Artworks referencing Black identity as a construct
2021