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STATEMENT OF WORK
I am influenced by working class people, their stories, workplaces, homes, and bodies; specifically those living in mobile homes. Tangentially I’m curious about my queer female body at work, as another building material, a symbol of invisible labor, stemming from a haunting feeling of a history and class that I can’t escape. My work is situated in sculpture, site-specificity, queer-identity and social practice.
I’m currently working on a project that is involves researching the “American Dream” ideology that is directly related to my personal narrative of growing up in a mobile home community. For the past 5 years I’ve documented mobile home parks (over 50 sites) and interviewed residents; compiled research on the mobile home industry and culture; and created and exhibited work influenced by these rudimentary archives I’ve built and my personal history growing up in a double-wide trailer in eastern Pennsylvania.
Ubiquitous American Dream ideology teaches us to blame ourselves for lack of social mobility. Yet research shows working class Americans rarely leave their social class. I know firsthand this unwarranted shame is amplified living in a mobile home: socio-spatial stigma, shame of home. This work exposes the shame phenomenon while humanizing MH residents, an underrepresented community, composed of interviews, film, and sound elements. Using materials such as OSB plywood, wood paneling, and cinderblock relate back to my upbringin in a mobile home park located in Eastern, Pa where my parents still reside.