I/You Am/Are Me/You/Us, mixed re-used materials
Shielded State
These works process my study of societal injustices. We find ways to separate ourselves from one another through otherizing behaviors and systemic exclusionary policies. Through laborious processes, I honor work that is unappreciated and often uncompensated. With the words of exclusion and division, separation and inequity, pain and prejudice, I press viewers to consider the effects of these practices. Using forms that are ghostly or shield-like, I emphasize the shape-shifting ubiquity of efforts to undermine the welfare, security, and success of individuals who may not fit a "norm."
Supremacy, fabric, food net, copper, brass, thread
Privilege, reclaimed fabric, food net, copper, thread/string
Blinders, reclaimed fabric, food net, copper, thread, words
Inequity, remnant fabric, copper, thread
Silence Is Complicity, reclaimed fabric + fruit net, copper, brass, thread, words
Invisible, mixed re-used materials
I/You Am/Are Me/You/Us, mixed re-used materials
Each, Every, All, None, reused materials, thread, words
Is THIS U.S.?, reused mixed materials
Just Too Much, mixed re-used materials