If a house is a physical manifestation of where we place ourselves and where we are from, my work is the recreation of a precarious home.
The foundation of the precarious home is built upon transformation: its residents learn to live without the luxury of discrete boundaries. I make work that expresses the psychology of this precarity through transformative landscapes of potential violence. My work is the spatial translation of a narrative, woven together from both intimate and public experiences, from fact and from fiction.
My interest in precarity is autobiographical; my own history can be described as a series of transformative states. I have a bipolar mind: I seek to share the experience of madness as both rational and irrational, unique and universal, environmental and innate. My personal mythology informs my aesthetic and is comprised of feminist fairy tales, domestic crime scenes and horror-movie lullabies.
Societal trauma can be discussed through the lens of shared identity and experience, but the subsequent shock waves are absorbed through individualized processes and within intimate relationships. The cultural and social impact of these domestic horrors is often overlooked: I seek to magnify them to their proper proportion. My work strives to provoke critical discourse around the subjects of class, gender and capitalism in America from a relational perspective.
I am committed to a process of intimate engagement as part of a feminist methodology of artistic meaning-making, and I seek to explore methods of storytelling that are based upon exchange. My work is often immersive, experience-driven, interactive, and deliberately designed to provoke allow for an individualized response. Much of my practice is a vectorization of strategic recollection; my aesthetic language is an associative tapestry expunged from memory maps. My philosophy of making is founded on the belief that personal testimony is instinctual, serves a communal purpose, and forms the basis of human understanding. Scientific research on neural positioning, the epigenetics of mental illness, the process of memory making and the effects of trauma on sensory processing further inform my practice.