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Videos
Inquiry Into the ELE
2019After an unusual and profound experience in 2013, I began an archive and body of work examining end-of-life experiences (ELEs) and their role as tools to help us understand both the emotional intricacy of grief and the ways in which we construct our beliefs about human consciousness and a possible afterlife. Featuring illustrated true accounts of individual end-of-life experiences during or following the death of a loved one, this film is a collaborative study between myself and other ELE experiencers.
Added on: August 30, 2022
The Portal (excerpt)
2020This excerpt features P.M.H. Atwater, a researcher of near-death experiences (she has allegedly died and come back to life three times). In The Portal, P.M.H. invites viewers to enter into her experimentation with altered states of consciousness, mysticism, and psychic phenomena with research to reveal what transformations of consciousness are, why we have them, and where they lead us. This excerpt expands on my recent installations that invite visitors to participate in a shared experience, and to imagine (or question) what may exist on the other side of death.
Added on: August 30, 2022
Vigil
2021As a public offering, Vigil provides space to commune and contend with loss, or simply listen. Installed in the newly restored Chapel at Green-Wood (September-October 2020), this audio installation is rooted in my experience with the Threshold Choir, a community of women continuing the ancient tradition of bedside singing to the dying. While we are separated from one another, unable to access the grieving traditions normally practiced, this work offers a space to access and contend with both personal and collective experiences of loss.
Added on: August 30, 2022
10 Principles of Survival
2020Digital collages and Video, Stereo Sound, TRT: 1:00
Added on: August 30, 2022
Offering (commissioned for online exhibition at BRIC Contemporary, Brooklyn)
2021While we are separated from one another, unable to access the grieving traditions normally practiced, this work is an offering to access and contend with both our personal and collective loss and invite a chance for these emotions to be processed in a therapeutic way.
Added on: August 30, 2022
BELOVED MOTHERS (detail)
2021This video installation is a commemoration of chosen family. It connects and honors those people who have nurtured and guided others; the friends, lovers, and mentors whose labors are not as visible, yet who have been most important and intrinsic to their growth. Here we define mothering as a non-gendered verb, reconsidering roles in normative motherhood. The flowers and gold elements make up a foundation, echoing my biological family who have worked in the floral business in Pittsburgh (originating on the Northside’s East Ohio Street) for decades.
Added on: August 30, 2022
Workshops
Over the past 8 years, I have built a body of work exploring end-of-life experiences (ELEs). Recently, I have been conceiving a project that investigates how we construct our beliefs about human consciousness and a possible afterlife, with a particular focus on how abstraction, imagery, and non-linear narrative help us process discomfort and imagine decisions based on assumptions about our lives and deaths. My current research involves creating an archive of images and interviews that serve as the project framework.Added on: May 2, 2023