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Videos
The Floor is a Door
2024I am currently developing "The Floor is a Door." In this project, I first create an installation for my performances. The installation is a two level space, with the top space fabricated to resemble a section of my bedroom and the bottom to represent underground. Within this set, I perform with props. The props are hollow recreations of objects from my actual bedroom. I film the breaking, dripping, and rising of the props during the performances. Currently, I have filmed three sections of my bedroom and the ground beneath. After I finish filming performances for every section of my bedroom, I plan to project the performance videos side-by-side onto a built space the same size as my actual bedroom to create a video representation of my entire bedroom and the ground beneath.
Added on: July 10, 2024
Unmaking and Making Self Portrait
2017This piece expresses a feminine experience portraying self- denial/indulgence, self-effacement/creation, monstrous/powerless, too much/too little. The painting on the top surface of the box is made from homemade clay and two different kinds of paint. The clay dams separate the oil based paint from the water based paint. I slide my legs underneath the surface of the box and pull my arms through the sleeves and then manipulate the painting of the legs while my actual legs are strapped directly underneath on the inside of the box. Because I’m strapped inside the box, I cannot move freely. I pull cords attached to shelving units towards me in order to complete my task. Precariously full cups of liquid paint rest upon the purposefully shoddily built shelving units.I struggle from inside the box to wrestle the shelving units up a too steep ramp. Accidents threaten to happen at every turn. Absurdity, hilarity, and anxiety compel the viewer towards a vulnerable character in an impossible situation.
Added on: July 10, 2024
Window Screens
2016In Window Screens, I created a steel box around myself in the corner of a room and hung window screens off wire cords. Then, I filled the box with black ink. In the performance, for three and a half hours, I continuously dipped screens in black ink at my maximum capacity. Window screens are able to hold ink for a just few moments. When the screens hold the black ink they become opaque, but then, gravity pulls the ink from the screen and the screens return to transparency— a cyclical labor of great difficulty and short-lived success. Because of my efforts, the box moved between transparency and opacity, but determination meets the impossible and the person is too little for the situation. Eventually, the box began to hemorrhage ink. The ink spread across the floor to the viewers, emptying my apparatus of ink; thereby, foiling my efforts completely.
Added on: July 10, 2024