Videos

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Fall

“Fall” consists of a group of over 800 prints, all of which have been used in stop-motion animation. The images range from birds, angels, numbers, moons, and figures from art history. The images morph into each other, transfiguring themselves. This intuitive, collage-like method suggests connections among the images: the moon (waxing and waning, an always-present satellite that historically marks months), angels grieving over the crucifixion (a reminder that grief has and will exist forever), the numbers 1-7 (an homage to the days in a week), airplanes (a symbol of human connection and hubris), and falcons (animals that can fly and whose connection to humans is complex). Planes seem to crash into the ocean; angels fly through the sky and observe our human ways; and the moon stays stable and still, neutral to our plight. Repeating these images through serial iteration and building images through layering mirrors how trauma works through repetition, a constant, untiring presence. The traces of the images before makes visually apparent the notion that time layers on itself constantly.
Added on: July 28, 2021

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Snowbow (visitation)

Added on: July 28, 2021

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A Month Ago

2017
A Month Ago, 1:19. "A Month Ago" converts six seconds of documentary footage from the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville into a stop motion animation. This animation consists of 225 monoprints. Each print uses a hand cut stencil that I made from actual documentary footage of this rally. The figures march in a group, joined physically as a stencil, across the screen, back and forth, taking pictures of themselves, their faces transforming into ghouls. In the process of making stop motion animation, I wanted to slow down this horrifying news, in an attempt to digest it and to pay attention. The video is meant to be shown in a continuous loop, with no specified beginning or end. Their marching is futile yet frightening, pointless yet hostile. The silence of the animation stands in contrast to the loudness of the march, of their chants ("Jews will not replace us!"). In watching a silent video, I wanted the individual's own inner narrative to come forward.
Added on: June 30, 2020

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Kairos 1

2020
In modern Greek, the word kairos refers to the weather. In ancient Greek, kairos describes godly time, “the right time,” the time to take an action, to release the arrow from the taut bow. It also means era or epoch. The Kairos drawings (graphite, tape, thread, pastel, video on vellum and tracing paper) record current time and act as a record of time past. The drawings record the residue of lost time: erasing (a trace of what was there but is barely visible), pastel drawings and video of the sky from observation (records/memories of time past), the presence of the moon (waxing and waning, an always-present satellite that historically marks months), the numbers 1-24 (an homage to the hours in a day), Giotto’s angels grieving over the crucifixion (a reminder that grief has and will exist forever), repetition of images (mirroring how trauma works through repetition, a constant, untiring presence), and multiple layers of the same image (suggesting animation, movement, or film stills).
Added on: June 30, 2020