2024 - present, silver gelatin prints, steel
Rooted in a study of inheritance, I examine my upbringing and my connections to American identity, asking: what must we do with what we are given? Ruminating in the depths of shadow to create a perversion of an American landscape, my work visualizes the sickness instilled in the land, a stain that has seeped into the grass, darkened the forests, and warped the home. I am seeking to engage with this perversion, a form that is seemingly ever-changing, to pry apart the unspoken architectures of whiteness to examine its inborn violence, Objects of engrossment include a .22 caliber revolver given to me by my father, a pendant of St. Jude inherited from my grandfather, and motifs of rot. In installation, the images sprawl over three deconstructed twin bedframes, an abject metal tapestry that darts between hardness and drapery, the organic and inorganic, an anti-alter.
read my thesis here