Installed at CCA PlaySpace Gallery.
A Hundred Years of Servitude imagines a future in which ocean mining has forced deep-sea creatures like anglerfish to the surface; descendants of a primordial species are doomed to live with incessant extraction. Copper structures, a symbol of enduring wealth, have spiraled out of control. Are these the sentiments of a dying species—or the reflections of their human stewards, who have collectively surrendered to technocrats?
Installed in the artists’s studio.
To my ancestors, who make time habitable explores immaterial metaphysical connections the spirit world through two forms: offerings and altars. Copper “altars” are portals: the threshold between the tangible and intangible. Paper handmade from the artist’s grimoire (book of spells) are sculpted into vessel-like offerings. Hanging from golden thread, these objects are intimate gestures towards the more-than-human.
Installed at Root Division's Frank-Ratchye Space (169 sq ft) in San Francisco, CA.
Without the stars, there would be no us imagines the cosmos in expansion, accreting astronomical objects to produce the celestial bodies. Mirror sculptures on mylar grids reference the farsighted view of Lee Bul’s Civitas Solis II, modeling proportions of time and space that the human mind can only dream of. The painting, The largesse of red stars, speculates on the end of heliocentrism in our solar system. These encounters query the banality of human exceptionalism in a universe where our lives are cosmic dust.